You talking about computer weaknesses?"
"Yes. But also human weaknesses."
"Meaning what?"
"Meaning the types of weaknesses that make humans let down their guard. Trust people they shouldn't trust."
"You're talking about manipulating people."
"Yes." Dexter and Lester were staring at each other. "I guess I am.
He laughed again, red-faced and moist-looking, at another unfunny comment. He was either drunk or an idiot. Possibly both.
Chris PavoneWhat she did know, unfortunately, was that she had to reconsider everything she'd ever willed herself to believe about her husband.
Chris PavoneWhatever her husband had done, it couldn't be as bad as what she herself had done.
Chris PavoneThat was not her husband; she knew him, and that was not him. But of course she didn’t really know him.
Chris PavoneThis is the expat life: you never know when someone you see every day is going to disappear forever, instantly transmogrifying into a phantom. Before long you won’t be able to remember her last name, the color of her eyes, the grades that her children were in. You can’t imagine not seeing her tomorrow. You can’t imagine you yourself being one of those people, someone who one day just vanishes. But you are.
Chris PavoneShe loved him so much. Even when she hated him.
Chris PavoneShe stared at this first bit of positive proof, the entrance to the rabbit hole from which she might never reemerge.
Chris PavoneBut when Kate returned home he was gone. Back to the video camera that had recorded her. Back to his unexplainable office. Back to his secret phone, his unfamiliar contacts, his fifty million stolen euros. Back to his other life.
Chris PavoneA liar doesn't want to think that other people are liars, because then the other people should suspect her of lying too, because she is, and she'll get caught.
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