nah. steve gave his boy a shiny new toy, and we all know the character has the absolute balls to use it (testifying against your house, under the orb, feeding a big boss off to another kingdom to get out from under your own freakish sense of honor)..unless he does time/setting jumping again, we are about to see vlad buck the house of jhereg and make it stick. not unlike barritt bucking the empire and making it stick... andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louann Miller" <lqmiller at ev1.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:23 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: RE: Spoiler for ISSOLA in this post > 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. > >