"Sure, sometimes." She scoots powdery snow and half-frozen needle clumps aside with her boot. "And sometimes what stops them is the fact that they're good people whose sentimentality and conventional emotional experiences do drive them to do good."

Her parents had been like that. Cole had been like that. Harold is like that, and as much as the CIA had tried to stamp it out of him, John is like that, too. Shaw has met plenty of bad people in her life, but the good people she's met are just as undeniable.