Prosper's Demon
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What could you say to someone who felt that belief was a component of truth?
And you said I don’t make friends." "With you it’s personality, with me it’s good old-fashioned racism.
Now, with the rise of the merchant class, the buying and selling of things no longer makes education a necessity. People amass wealth without realizing that they need to amass knowledge to better use that wealth—the Peggy Guggenheims of this world are dying. Those stupid people I see on television are the future, and they will fight you every step of the way. They will try to make you like them.
Graves is a classic example of the Dunning–Kruger effect in action; if he doesn’t know something, he thinks it’s not important. At least he’s diligent in his stupidity.
Lucas knew that arguing with Graves was pointless. What could you say to someone who felt that belief was a component of truth?
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About Robert Pobi
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During the worst blizzard in memory, an FBI agent in a moving SUV in New York City is killed by a nearly impossible sniper shot. Unable to pinpoint where the shot came from, as the storm rapidly wipes out evidence, the agent-in-charge Brett Kehoe turns to the one man who might be able to help them--former FBI agent Lucas Page.
Page, a university professor and bestselling author, left the FBI years ago after a tragic event robbed him of a leg, an arm, an eye, and the willingness to continue. But he has an amazing ability to read a crime scene, figure out angles and trajectories in his head, and he might be the only one to be able to find the sniper's nest. With a new wife and family, Lucas Page has no interest in helping the FBI--except for the fact that the victim was his former partner.
Agreeing to help for his partner's sake, Page finds himself hunting a killer with an unknown ag
Book details
- First published
- 2019
- Author
- Robert Pobi
- Genre
- Thriller
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- 3.92 (4k ratings)
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