Eight Million Ways to Die
Why does Matt Scudder leave his job with the police force in the novel, Eight Million Ways to Die?
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Scudder's guilt at accidentally killing a child when he was trying to stop a robbery led to his quitting his job with the police force and leaving his family in the suburbs to live by himself on the edge of a very transient life, making his headquarters a neighborhood bar, Armstrong's.
Eight Million Ways to Die