Mastermind (Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood #1)

by Andrew Mayne

If you study the strategy of terrorists, you’ll notice that they went from focusing on initial damage to creating follow-up attacks that killed first responders. One bomb to hurt the civilians, a second to kill all the people who rushed in to help.

You can’t emulate a mind you don’t understand. What we end up doing is either projecting our own ideas or playing a naive game of opposites, where we try to determine what’s evil by our understanding of what’s good.