Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 27 (p. 402)
“The death of the wildebeest herd didn’t change the bloody savagery she’d witnessed in the Roman Circus, but it put life and death in much clearer perspective. Nature wasn’t any nobler or gentler than human beings. It was just as deadly and just as cruel and just as savagely “unfair” to the weak…
Maybe more so.”
Source: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 370; ellipsis in the original)
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