The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven, #4; Livia Lone, #3)

by Barry Eisler

“What cops call hunches,” Trahan said, “FBI hackers call pattern recognition.”

One of the things Livia pounded home with her students was the dictum Trust your gut. When you felt something was off, you had to believe that feeling, even if you couldn’t articulate the basis. Gavin de Becker had written a great book on the topic—The Gift of Fear.

“A friend who loves Paris once told me, ‘There aren’t many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well.’”