The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5)

by Jim Butcher

HBGB was a propaganda stunt on behalf of the mortal powers-that-be to help cover up the massive presence of the supernatural in Chicago during the attack, and to work to silence anyone who tried to bear witness to what they had experienced. The news was saying that it was a toxin that would linger for a time, and could have long term deleterious psychological effects, but I knew the truth: It didn’t exist. I had just been defeated by a literal hallucination built from denial and the most determined and pettily self-interested stupidity I had ever encountered. I think I had told Bob something like this before: stupid is way more dangerous than actual evil, if only because there’s so much more of it around. I simply wasn’t used to encountering it in such four-dimensional density, all in one place and at one time. Hell’s bells.