So charming and competent and calculating and vulnerable and so utterly unreliable. Except when he isn't. And then he is again

This - I liked the part where Will goes "It would help if you were more reliably unreliable. At least I'd know where I stood."

That must have been terrible, to write a book about an engineered virus that would turn into a pandemic if released, and then have the real world erupt in a pandemic shortly before the book release. I mean, what are the odds?

Same!