QUOTE (MikeL @ July 13 2008, 03:42 PM)

Well, Worthington is now a full-fledged bureaucrat. He has been made Acting Director of whatever the mage agency is called (I forget). He has met with the President, the Secretary of DHS, and the Governator. Now, he can get to the important stuff.
Great chapter, Dan...a lot of plot development. Thanks.
It was indeed an excellent chapter, with a great deal of plot development. Two comments:
1.
I think Gerald Norman's death is highly suspicious, under the circumstances. Granted that coincidences do occur, for the chief honcho of the government's mage program to be killed just now... well, the old adage is "Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action."2. I propose a new law, resembling Murphy's:
"After the Do Over tetralogy, Dawn of Tears, and now Rich Boy, if you are the protagonist of a Dan Kirk story, and the President wants to talk to you, run, do not walk, and do not stop until you are in Tierra Del Fuego or living in Bali under an assumend name -- the results are going to be beyond your control and not ones you're going to be happy with."