“What kind of man takes a live bomb across the seas in order to blow up other people? People who have mothers and lovers and children, just like him?
Probably either a professional or a patriot, Alex thought. Or, worse, both.”

— David Brin , book Earth

Part IX (p. 524)
Earth (1990)

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