Pursuit of Percipient

Just what my doctor might have ordered - an adventure.How to interpret that gesture, more subtle than the flat of the hand across the throat but menacing and made in my direction?Nothing for it but a headlong dash across Europe, hounds snapping at my heels - (delete "e;headlong"e;, novelistic, clichéd), and not hounds - assassins, Asiatic, ruthless after dark throat slitters, the snipers and bombe...