P eople think the really bad ones are something special, but they’re not," her mother said, sitting on the edge of her bed, next to the table crowded with meds. "Psycho killers and rapists, they never ruin as many lives as a man like Corbell does. His daddy was a town councilman. Stuck-up boy, Corbell, selfish, but no more than lots that age. Thirty-some years on, he’s ruined more people than he can be bothered to remember, or even know." She was looking at Flynne.