That is the thing no one tells you about evil, and that I did not understand until that morning by the coffee machine.

We imagine we would recognize it.

We imagine the predator announces himself somehow, that cruelty leaves a visible mark, that we would feel a chill in the presence of a man capable of murder.

It is a comforting fantasy, and it is completely false.

The most dangerous people in the world look just like the people we trust, because they are the people we trust — they have spent decades building the trust precisely so that it can never occur to us to suspect them.

Predators do not have fangs.