When my wife and I purchased our house nearly thirty years ago we wanted out of the city and into a good school district in which to raise our children. That house came with about a fourth of an acre of lawn to care for, but hey I was young and it good exercise right?
In The Matchmaker’s Playbook 
Samantha Brinkman is a struggling defense attorney representing less than stalwart clients juggling bill payments and nursing a very old car even though she’s had courtroom success. In Blood Defense, 
In the second book in the Joe Dillard series, In Good Faith, 
In the first in the series featuring defense lawyer Joe Dillard we find him near the end of his rope (i.e. career) even though he is fairly young. A bit tired of representing scumbags and lowlifes he has just one wish and that is to represent…An Innocent Client. 
“I turned the knob, eased the heavy door inward half an inch or so. My blood was really up now. You never know for certain what’s going to be on the other side of the door. That’s one of the things that makes it exciting, but it also makes it scary, and it’s still scary no matter how many time you’ve done it. Once the lock’s open, though, you can’t do it an inch at a time like an old lady slipping into a swimming pool. So I pushed the door open and went inside.”
In The Color of Magic 
This autobiography,Catch Me If You Can
“Mallory had used great care in vetting all of the people who worked here. There were no formal recruitments, of course. One couldn’t put an advertisement in the paper seeking justice-minded vigilantes comfortable with killing folks who desperately deserved it.”
Deliver Us from Evil 
I know that many of our American soldiers do great things every day. This story of a young Russian is, however, too powerful not to pass along. The young man was in Syria calling in air strikes on ISIS murderers when he was surround by the murderous thugs. The following is his communication thread with his command;
Officer: They are outside, conduct the airstrike now, please hurry, this is the end, tell my family I love them and I died fighting for my motherland.
Command: Negative, return to green line.
