Acceptable Loss: A Thriller

Acceptable Loss by C.L. Watson In a crowded public space, a man is attacked by strangers who move with calm precision and speak in language that sounds less like rage and more like procedure. The encounter ends quickly, but the certainty it leaves behind does not. Jack Mercer is not chosen because of who he is, but because of what he represents inside a system that no longer recognizes limits. What appears at first to be an isolated act of violence soon reveals a deeper architecture, one bu...