It was an emotion no kid should have to feel... Yet he wondered if it weren't the legacy of childhood, At some point in the game. you would come to it... Desolation was inevitable, it ran beneath everything, the always-available unbearably adult emotion that clung to one's still-breathing body like drowned clothes.
The last thing in the world Richard Jury wants to think about is the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood, and made orphans of so many of the gaunt and sad-eyed children pictured in this handful of snapshots his old friend Mickey Haggerty shoves towards him on the desk.
Part I Remembrance Mile
Part Ⅱ Firenze Farrago
Part Ⅲ Moonlight Sonata
Part IV Fear Wearing Black
Part V Vanishing Point