At 08:06 PM 1/28/2005 -0800, Mark A. Mandel wrote: > > And at the end of Issola we see him about to go into [spoiler extremely > public location] with a [spoiler object] at his side. I'm relatively new here -- how evil is Steve? Because the evillest and most unlikely plot twist I can think of would be for that _not_ to be a setup for a Dashiel Hammet-like opening to the next book. Louann, just saying.