" He took my family,” Adamat said. “Blackmailed me, and he still has my wife and oldest son. I want to get them back, and then kill him slowly.”
“A lot of violence planned, for a family man,” the eunuch said.
Adamat leaned forward. “‘Family,’” he said. “Remember that word. There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family. "

― Brian McClellan , The Crimson Campaign (Powder Mage, #2)