the most remorseless constable, saying "sponsor" — "I went through Choices last winter…"

The program's widest reach in the book, into the office of the law itself: the toothbrush-revenge prosecutor, one of three counties' most remorseless, rotating his Stetson and speaking fluent recovery — sponsor, working a program, a day at a time, detach with love. The disease's institutions have colonized even the man who prosecutes the diseased; the same twelve-step grammar that runs Ennet House now runs the constable's interior, "unmanageability" and all. The reach is the point: no one is standing outside this machinery.