the Get-Even man and the detox on the cell floor
He took zero in the way of shit and was a cheery but implacable exponent of the Don’t-Get-Mad-Get-Even school.
Context
The active addict's temperament and its costs in one pairing: the jolly, implacable Get-Even élan that runs the toothbrush-revenge caper, and the reason revenge was owed — ninety-two days in Revere Holding that included a nasty impromptu detox on the cell floor. Withdrawal glimpsed sidelong here, involuntary and unmanaged, is the same physiology the program will later teach him to survive on purpose.