False Value (Rivers of London #8)

by Ben Aaronovitch

It’s one of those weird truths you learn early on as police that quite a high percentage of the public have all the survival instinct of a moth in a candle factory. They run the wrong way, they refuse to move, some will run toward the danger, and others will instantly whip out their phones and take footage.

where one of Abigail’s experiments suffered an unscheduled spontaneous disassembly.

But everyone assumes causation when they should be thinking coincidence, and correlation when they should be asking whether Twitter is really a reliable source of information.

Believe it or not, the police are trained to spot such subtle signs as balaclavas, nylon climbing harnesses and big shoulder bags that go “clonk” when you put them down.

Although Stephanopoulos has banned us from using the one where we both pretend to be speaking Wakandan.

Once something is known, it’s almost impossible to retain control.