" But later, standing in triage, surrounded by a pile of bloody rags that had been cut from the body of an eight-year-old boy who was now in surgery, having a gangrenous leg amputated, she felt the black heat rising inside her head again. It made her wish she’d gone with Cooper. What the hell is wrong with people that they’d do these things—to little kids? It "

― John Birmingham , Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2)