What is Duke Edwin playing at?
"Thank God for giving him the foresight to have Sten Runeberg's house bugged, after he'd gotten the man fired from Ramnu." (p. 27)
"There was no way, under these conditions, to arrange an abduction or assassination. Anything untoward would be too damnably suspicious, in a period when a degree of suspicion was already aimed at Cairncross." (p. 28)
The Duke's surname is Cairncross. We do not yet know what his game is but now the novel has its heroine, Miriam Abrams, and its villain, Duke Edwin, and, further down p. 28, at the beginning of Chapter III, we will meet the hero:
"Vice Admiral Dominic Flandry, Intelligence Corps, Imperial Terran Navy..."
Flandry has been carefully led up to through the viewpoints of Yewwl, then Abrams, then the Duke.
Abrams has confirmed that her father was Flandry's superior on Starkad and has since died. We are very much in a "Children of Empire" period but I have listed the various offspring of Flandry and his contemporaries a few times already.
We re-appreciated the beauty of Starfall on Hermes when Abrams visited Sten Runeberg and now we look forward to revisiting Flandry's place in Archopolis on Terra.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And at long last we get some real glimpses of Archopolis in A STONE IN HEAVEN! But, still not enough, IMO. I have speculated that Constantinople might have been chosen as the site or center of Archopolis. Because of its long imperial history and location near where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet or come close together.
Ad astra! Sean
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