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That's just the trouble, most innocent people don't [even think about consulting a lawyer when in trouble].

What shocked and influenced him above all else was the appalling, senseless waste. The original crime was mean, foolish, foredoomed to failure; yet, in failing, its devastation was outrageously immense...It proved a catharsis through which he came to see all crime as equally negative, equally destructive...Perhaps, from the beginning, a streak of puritanism had been latent, deep inside him. If so, it surfaced.

Police work taught him that criminals did foolish and unexpected things...

Missed my introductory #firstlinefridays . . .

“Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.“

“ 'But I'll give you a piece of advice I've found useful sometimes in conundrum situations...It's this: mistrust the obvious.' “

Pompous but rambling and government finance policy-critical finance & economics guru as lovers, and sketchy/fishy bank audit goings-on, continuing on with the quality characterization Hailey seems to have a knack for.

“Where once---as an old song put it---miners 'owed their souls to the company store,' a new breed of chronic debtor had arisen, naively mortgaging future life and income to a 'friendly neighborhood bank.' One reason was that credit cards had replaced, to a large extent, small loans. Where individuals used to be dissuaded from excessive borrowing, now they make their own loan decisions---often unwisely...the system downgraded American morality.“

“With a trace of irony, he said, 'I guess if you ask for plain answers you're apt to get them.'

“ 'What does a man do in circumstances like yours...while he's making up his mind he ought to remember two things. One is, if he's a decent man, his own guilt feelings are probably exaggerated because a well-developed conscience has a habit of punishing itself more harshly than it need. The other is few people are qualified for sainthood; the majority of us aren't born with the equipment.' “

Money can‘t buy me love, but it can buy me books at the church fundraiser today. So of course I reorganized my bookshelves earlier this week.
#HeyJune

As for the tagged book...never heard of it!