So, I have two strange questions I could never get the answers to. I want to know what others think about it.

1. So, what happened to Cayce's father on 9/11? He was a retired CIA-agent. I thought it was a subtle way by Gibson to tell the world that 9/11 was an inside job and Cayce's father was still active in the CIA and had to do his part of the inside job on that special day.
I don't know, just thought that this could be.


2. Who is the guy that stays with Cayce in bed in the end of the novel? Was it this Peter Gilbert from Chicago alias Parkaboy?

*SPOILERS*

(But if you haven't read the book, why are you here? )

1. As I recall, in the last tie-everything-up-neatly-so-I-won't-write-a-sequel chapter, Cayce's father is tracked at least as far as having ridden a taxi that was found in a collapsed building or something like that. I also seem to remember the building had CIA offices in it, so that plausibly he may have went there to meet someone and got caught in the attack that way.

2. Yes.

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Originally posted by colin:
*SPOILERS*

(But if you haven't read the book, why are you here? )

1. As I recall, in the last tie-everything-up-neatly-so-I-won't-write-a-sequel chapter, Cayce's father is tracked at least as far as having ridden a taxi that was found in a collapsed building or something like that. I also seem to remember the building had CIA offices in it, so that plausibly he may have went there to meet someone and got caught in the attack that way.

2. Yes.

Well, I read it of course, but two years have passed by since then. I actually like the fact that Gibson embedded the 9/11 attacks in his story. He pointed out that after 9/11 a new era of worldwide paranoia has started off and Cayce Pollard was one of the first victims that became infected with it.

Yes, this music producer from Chicago. He was not even on the spot in big parts of the story, but despite got the most important thing in the end. I really envy him.
Although Boone had deserved it much more...

Personally, I think the fact that we don't know what happened to Cayce's dad is the whole point.

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Originally posted by Biochips:
So, I have two strange questions I could never get the answers to. I want to know what others think about it.

1. So, what happened to Cayce's father on 9/11? He was a retired CIA-agent. I thought it was a subtle way by Gibson to tell the world that 9/11 was an inside job and Cayce's father was still active in the CIA and had to do his part of the inside job on that special day.
I don't know, just thought that this could be.

See the speculation as to the chances of one of the characters in Spook Country actually being, or resembling, Wingrove Pollard in Pattern Recognition

Refer to the Spook Country *SPOILERS OK* section:

http://williamgibsonboard.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7801097133/m/6051073333

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Originally posted by IndividualFrog:
Personally, I think the fact that we don't know what happened to Cayce's dad is the whole point.