BEg2 ch32 brief summary (of a pretty brief chapter)

[Michael Bailey]

Reg Despard calls from Seattle, he’s okay & temping for Microsoft. Even had
dinner with the ex & her new husband.

They talk about the DVD, float some theories.


Maxine and Cornelia meet for lunch at “Streetlight People” (Slagiatt’s
business) where Maxine gives Rocky a copy of Windust’s file.

M & C lunch at another Jewish restaurant, and talk about her distant cousin
Lloyd Thrubwell, a CIA guy. Maxine recognizes a hint - and gets his contact
info.


Segue immediately into a brief chat with said Thrubwell, in the course of
which he agrees to look into Windust in the classified files to which he
has access, and boasts that he’s cleared “pretty much all the way to Eyes
Only.”

Maxine’s purpose is dual: not only to find out more about Windust, but also
to rattle W’s cage because she feels sure Thrubwell’s investigation will
leave traces visible to the “Friedmanite hit man.”

Maxine then succumbs to a brief melancholy reflection on the limits and
nature of her quest, w/r/t Windust but also to the “planetary pyramid
scheme” he fronts for.