Re: the choice of North Carolina--Bovino grew up there. I think he's retreating to familiar terrain because he's failed so badly in enemy territory.

I'll defer to others on the appropriate fate for Nuzzi, but her editor deserves a spanking.

Hahaha no

It was supposed to be end-of-novel, though some of them blew that off. One student imagined a dialogue between Einstein and Victor where Victor offered to help end WWII by creating an army of zombie soldiers. Horrific, but definitely got points for creative thinking.

Musk and Zuck were the top two.

(That was the subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . . . )