III"THAT WAS EXACTLY THE point I ran into. I wanted to believe one side would win and when they didn't, I got depressed. And then that side started finding all sorts of things bad with the guy who did win. But the media was spinning the data and slanting it so that their lies became presented as truth." I stopped to let the waitress refill my cup and stirred honey into it as I watched it steam, just as John did to his.
"That's exactly what a detective-mystery writer will do. The actual facts of the case are boring. Forensic science is incredibly dull and repetitious. So you leave out the boring parts and trim it down to just the key points that people want to hear. Uncle Tom's Cabin was just like that. Not true at all. But people wanted to believe it was factual. Abolitionists were comple
