Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.

Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a...