"This is crazy, he thought. I'm going crazy. Get a hold of yourself, you're being paranoid"- the mind of Tom Cope

Tom Cope the main antagonist of the story is about to leave his apartment when he sees a man and a woman staring at him through the downstairs window. He heads back up to his room and becomes very paranoid that those were f.b.i agents. He has no reason to believe that they are because all they did was stare at him but what the audience knows that Cope doesn't is that they are actually f.b.i.agents Austen and Hopkins and they didn't chase after him because he was carrying a bag that could've been a bomb of some sort



Author- Richard Preston
Title- The Cobra Event
Publisher- The Baltimore Publishing Group
Year- 1997
Page- 360
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