"Odile sat in the white armchair, with the white robot on its back in her lap, poking a white Mondrian pencil into its mechanism of plastic gears and black rubber bands."
Chapter 50. WHISPERING GALLERY
"Milgrim woke in a narrow bed, beneath a single flannel sheet printed with trout flies, partial riverscapes, and the repeated image of an angler, casting."
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Chapter 49. ROTCH
Odile tells Hollis that Bobby Chombo is actually a Canadian artist and geohacker named Bobby Ferguson ["Chombo" is his stage name] and an acquaintance of her ex-boyfriend. After Pamela Mainwaring calls to help book their flight to Vancouver, Odile tells Hollis that she too is working on Node’s dime. [300 characters]
Chapter 50. WHISPERING GALLERY
Waking in what used to be a boy's room in the Georgetown house, Milgrim overhears Brown expressing his disappointment to one of the goons who failed to apprehend the old man. Milgrim realizes that Brown knows nearly nothing: not who the old man is, not the contents or location of the shipping container. Brown has learned that the IF is part of "one of the smallest organized crime families in the United States. Maybe literally a family" with intelligence training in Cuba that allows them to operate "like ghosts." [517 characters]