** spoiler alert ** 
 Of course this all happened because a poor misunderstood dude got dumped and couldn't deal with it. Of course that's the way this all went down. I feel betrayed by this book. It started off pretty strongly, and I really thought we were going to get the story of some sort of money-laundering, world-spanning intrigue, but no. Poor fucking Charlie couldn't get his ex-girlfriend to take him back after he spent months insulting her, calling her fat, then choking her during sex, so he decided to murder her and commit suicide, courteously murdering seven other people, including a 9-year-old girl in the process. What a waste of the 10+ hours I spent listening to this BS.