A theme of the novel Pulse by Jeremy Robinson is not to underestimate people. This theme occurs again and again throughout the novel. One example occurs at the beginning, before Maddox gets hired by Ridley. Maddox meets Olive Reinhart, the head of security at the Manifold facility. Reinhart is twenty-five years old, and when questioned why people of such a young age are hired to be head of security, Reinhart simply replies, “Killers are born, not made,” (Robinson 9). Afterwards, Maddox realizes how deadly the young security guards at Manifold are, and realizes that he shouldn’t have underestimated them. Later, while the Chess Team is attacking a terrorist camp in Siberia, Queen removes the hood of her jacket, revealing her long her wavy blond
