BEg2 chapter 4 - summary part one

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 07:15:53 UTC 2021


Pages: 42 to 52 (Nook)

Novelis Personae:
Maxine
Shawn - the emotherapist
Taliban
Ziggy
Nigel (classmate of Ziggy) and his sitter
Otis
Fiona
Disrespect (superhero on tv)
The Contaminator (superhero on tv)

Emma Levin -
Krav Maga instructor, possibly ex-Mossad

Naftali - ex-Mossad boyfriend of Emma Levin

Vyrva -

Gabriel Ice and his wife Tallis; Lucas, Vyrva’s husband, and his business
partner Justin (as mentioned by Vyrva)

The Princess Di Beanie Baby

Mrs McElmo - what Ziggy calls Vyrva (well-mannered kid)



Locations -
- Shawn’s emotherapy office in “a walk-up near the Holland Tunnel approach”

(That’s in Lower Manhattan, near Canal Street and Hudson Square; the
Holland Tunnel goes west out of Manhattan to Jersey City.)

(Does she take the subway or a cab?)

- The Otto Kugelblitz School briefly, only to pick up Otis and Fiona

- Maxine’s apartment


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