BEER Ch. 6, 53-57: knotting into March Kelleher

[Monte Davis]

TE> Having just read some of Le Carré's novels, I find this reading of
'legend' quite convincing. This would suggest that hashslingerz is a CIA
front, no?

It's a tenuous association: I take Le Carre's usage to be MI6 argot, but (1)
don't remember seeing "legend" used that way in espionage fiction by others;
(2) don't know that TRP has read JLC, his peer in paranoia and
hustle/counter-hustle; and (3) don't often see Maxine as thinking spy-wise
rather than PI-wise. (Of course, one could debate whether that sentence
speaks for Maxine or the narrator over her shoulder.)

In any event, there are plenty of more compelling links between Gabriel Ice
and the Permanent Government. This one's quite possibly my illusion of
connectedness, but I'm happy to share... 

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