Barbarius commented on All Systems Red by Martha Wells
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
You can tell that the author is American, as she abbreviates kilometres to "kilos", which to the rest of the metric world is the very common abbreviation for kilograms, not kilometres.
But, hey, good on her for realising that it would be the system of measurement used for interstellar humans.