" I have some people here who would very much like to do that to me,” Grayland said. “Overthrow me, I mean.” “I would recommend against it,” Chenevert advised. “Not a great career move?” “It frees up your schedule, which is honestly fantastic. But the people who removed you then usually want to kill you too. And that’s inconvenient. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)