In a message dated 7/14/02, K Kuhn writes: >Maybe Paarfi is Mario? Given Mario's payscale, he needs >some way to explain the money he makes. And being >officially known as a nosy researcher might make it easier >to investigate someone. I'm thinking of the interview in FYA, the new Vlad book Brust says he's considering: "Yes. In this one, he is paid an immense amount of money to kill an annoying, stuffy, pretentious historical novelist, but ends up doing the job for free, and, in the course of the book, he discovers he enjoys torture, and-" I'm picturing Vlad's face as he realizes.... I love it. I don't believe it, but I love it. Rae