Pushing Brilliance (Kyle Achilles, #1)

by Tim Tigner

“To answer your other question, the best way to avoid attention while doing something surreptitious in public is to act like you’re someone in charge.” “And how do you plan to do that?” “It will be a combination of what I do and don’t do. I’ll avoid cautious movements and furtive glances since they arouse suspicion — triggering alarms built into our DNA. My goal will be to avoid detection altogether, so as not to generate any reaction at all, but even if I get stuck walking past an audience that can’t miss me, all I’ll have to do is keep my head up and shoulders back like an authority figure. That posturing triggers the submissive sectors in most people’s minds, and usually lets one slip under the radar without a second glance.” I nodded, subliminally reinforcing the veracity of what I’d said. “Time to go.”