Conscience

Some men are made by what's done to them. Some men are unmade by what they do about it.

Harold Simms was an ordinary man until his wife was left bleeding in an alley by three men who served barely a year. What Harold did about it cost him seven years — and everything else.

Free at last, all he wants is a quiet drink. What he gets is a stranger in a linen suit and a very persuasive reading of Scripture. By morning, eleven people are dead.

The man in the panama hat is buying, with all the time in the world to listen.