"Well, he’s mentally ill. The FBI profiled him as extreme obsessive-compulsive, and . . ." A summary thought struggled to burst out of Jeb. "This is the face of our enemy," he said at last. "I mean, he’s not al Qaeda, but he’s truly of that kind. There is just no reasoning with this guy. There’s no possible diplomacy we can use with him. There’s no compromise or common sense. We can’t scare him off, or buy him off, or give him anything that he wants. He’s got a value system so totally alien to ours that he’s like a Star Trek Borg."