Or my gut was wrong. Confirmation bias has put more innocent people in prison than malice. - Ben Aaronovitch

“Shouldn’t I know about these things?” I said.
“The list of things you need to know about, Peter, is extraordinarily long,” said Nightingale.

Chapter 1, “Ceci n’est pas un métro” (p. 9)

His big claim to fame, beyond writing the first ever vampire novel, is his work attempting to classify where whatever it is that powers magic comes from. He called it potentia because there’s nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you’re making it up as you go along.