Chapter 53. TO GIVE THEM THE PLEASURE
"Tito woke as the Cessna's wheels touched down."
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Chapter 53. TO GIVE THEM THE PLEASURE
Preparing for the trip to Vancouver with Odile, Hollis calls her mother vacationing in Puerto Vallarta. Hollis's mother never approved of her singing career and "seemed to regard any income from singing as a kind of disability pay." Her father is now a political news internet junkie who constantly rails against the President. Odile tells Hollis that if the United States were her country, she wouldn't be angry, she would just "drink all the time. Take pill. Anything." [471 characters]
How do Hollis and Odile know that they need to head off towards Vancouver ?
Chapter 54. ICE
Stopping to refuel, the old man asks Tito why he lifted the ICE [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] badge from his pursuer in New York. Afraid to admit that Eleggua had made him do it, Tito tells the old man he thought it might be a weapon. The old man tells Tito that he probably saved his pursuer from having to explaining to DHS what he was doing with a badge unlikely to be his. [385 characters]
In Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson used the acronym ICE to stand for "Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics", an idea credited to Tom Maddox.