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* If Milgrim was so far outside mainstream life that he generated no paper trail for ten years, how did Brown find him?
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* If Milgrim was so far outside mainstream life that he generated no paper trail for ten years, how did Brown find him?him?
** Lack of paper trail doesn't make someone impossible to find, especially if you're accustomed to working with law enforcement and in some places outside the law. If you know there's a gifted Russian translator floating around the community of benzo addicts in New York City, and you've already got some contacts among those people, it can't take that long to find someone who knows that weirdo who speaks Russian.
** Lack of paper trail doesn't make someone impossible to find, especially if you're accustomed to working with law enforcement and in some places outside the law. If you know there's a gifted Russian translator floating around the community of benzo addicts in New York City, and you've already got some contacts among those people, it can't take that long to find someone who knows that weirdo who speaks Russian.
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** The Voytek in ''Zero History'' isn't actually described as middle-aged, only as balding, and Milgrim estimates that the two of them are close in age, which Hollis, earlier in the book, guessed at thirty-something but wasn't sure about. All of this information is extremely loose, but none of it directly contradicts the possibility of, let's say, a twenty-four-year-old Voytek making a career change with Bigend's help and losing a bit of hair over the next seven years, which would put him in his thirties.
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** The Voytek in ''Zero History'' isn't actually described as middle-aged, only as balding, and Milgrim estimates that the two of them are close in age, which Hollis, earlier age. In ''Spook Country'', Milgrim mentions having been employed during Clinton's first term, so he was presumably at least a college graduate by 1996, and therefore at least in the book, guessed at his mid-thirties by 2009 (though probably not much older, since Hollis also guesses him to be thirty-something but wasn't sure about. All of this information is extremely loose, but none of it directly contradicts the possibility of, let's say, a twenty-four-year-old when she meets him). It's not too difficult to imagine that Voytek making might be twenty-four or twenty-five in 2002, make a career change with Bigend's help help, and losing a bit of lose some hair over the next seven years, which would put him in his thirties. before hitting age thirty-three.
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** Also, the two aren't mutually exclusive. Bigend could have terminated her employment on professional grounds but still maintained a personal relationship with her.
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Voytek is a boyish young artist in shorts, implied to be in his early twenties. In ''Zero History'', only seven years later, he's a middle-aged man and the owner of a shop called "Biroshak & Son." Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is in her late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' [[spoiler:has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, but implausible for a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be]].
** Is there any chance at all that the cranky middle-aged man we meet in ''Zero History'' is Voytek's father? In ''Pattern Recognition'' Voytek says that his father was a civil engineer in Moscow. This could mean that his father has died, but it could also mean that his father is alive but is no longer a civil engineer, or is no longer in Moscow, or both.
** Is there any chance at all that the cranky middle-aged man we meet in ''Zero History'' is Voytek's father? In ''Pattern Recognition'' Voytek says that his father was a civil engineer in Moscow. This could mean that his father has died, but it could also mean that his father is alive but is no longer a civil engineer, or is no longer in Moscow, or both.
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Voytek is a boyish young artist in shorts, implied to be in his early twenties. In ''Zero History'', only seven years later, he's a middle-aged man and the owner of a shop called "Biroshak & Son." Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is "
** The Voytek inher late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' [[spoiler:has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, isn't actually described as middle-aged, only as balding, and Milgrim estimates that the two of them are close in age, which Hollis, earlier in the book, guessed at thirty-something but implausible for wasn't sure about. All of this information is extremely loose, but none of it directly contradicts the possibility of, let's say, a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be]].
twenty-four-year-old Voytek making a career change with Bigend's help and losing a bit of hair over the next seven years, which would put him in his thirties.
**Is Alternately, is there any chance at all that the cranky middle-aged man we meet in ''Zero History'' is Voytek's father? In ''Pattern Recognition'' Voytek says that his father was a civil engineer in Moscow. This could mean that his father has died, but it could also mean that his father is alive but is no longer a civil engineer, or is no longer in Moscow, or both.
* Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is in her late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' [[spoiler:has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, but implausible for a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be]].
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* Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is in her late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' [[spoiler:has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, but implausible for a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be]].
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** Is there any chance at all that the cranky middle-aged man we meet in ''Zero History'' is Voytek's father? In ''Pattern Recognition'' Voytek says that his father was a civil engineer in Moscow. This could mean that his father has died, but it could also mean that his father is alive or is no longer a civil engineer, or is no longer in Moscow, or both.
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** Is there any chance at all that the cranky middle-aged man we meet in ''Zero History'' is Voytek's father? In ''Pattern Recognition'' Voytek says that his father was a civil engineer in Moscow. This could mean that his father has died, but it could also mean that his father is alive or but is no longer a civil engineer, or is no longer in Moscow, or both.
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** Is there any chance at all that the cranky middle-aged man we meet in ''Zero History'' is Voytek's father? In ''Pattern Recognition'' Voytek says that his father was a civil engineer in Moscow. This could mean that his father has died, but it could also mean that his father is alive or is no longer a civil engineer, or is no longer in Moscow, or both.
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** In ''Pattern Recognition'', Cayce is ''told'' that Pamela Mainwaring is no longer with Blue Ant. We have no confirmation that that's actually true.
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Voytek is a boyish young artist in shorts, implied to be in his early twenties. In ''Zero History'', only seven years later, he's a middle-aged man and the owner of a shop called "Biroshak & Son." Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is in her late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, but implausible for a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be.
* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Pamela Mainwaring is implied to be an informant for a Russian oligarch, and fired, but at the end of ''Zero History'' is implied to be Bigend's girlfriend.
* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Pamela Mainwaring is implied to be an informant for a Russian oligarch, and fired, but at the end of ''Zero History'' is implied to be Bigend's girlfriend.
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Voytek is a boyish young artist in shorts, implied to be in his early twenties. In ''Zero History'', only seven years later, he's a middle-aged man and the owner of a shop called "Biroshak & Son." Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is in her late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' has [[spoiler:has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, but implausible for a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be.
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Pamela Mainwaring is implied to bean [[spoiler:an informant for a Russian oligarch, and fired, fired]], but at the end of ''Zero History'' is implied to be Bigend's girlfriend.[[spoiler:Bigend's girlfriend, and is clearly in his good graces]].
* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Pamela Mainwaring is implied to be
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Voytek is a boyish young man artist in shorts, implied to be in his early twenties. In ''Zero History'', only seven years later, he's a middle-aged man and the owner of a shop called "Biroshak & Son."" Similarly, Pamela Mainwaring is in her late twenties in ''Pattern Recognition'', but at the end of ''Zero History'' has a grown daughter -- biologically possible, but implausible for a high-powered workaholic, as she's implied to be.
* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Pamela Mainwaring is implied to be an informant for a Russian oligarch, and fired, but at the end of ''Zero History'' is implied to be Bigend's girlfriend.
* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Pamela Mainwaring is implied to be an informant for a Russian oligarch, and fired, but at the end of ''Zero History'' is implied to be Bigend's girlfriend.
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* In ''Pattern Recognition'', Voytek is a boyish young man in shorts, implied to be in his early twenties. In ''Zero History'', only seven years later, he's a middle-aged man and the owner of a shop called "Biroshak & Son."
* If Milgrim was so far outside mainstream life that he generated no paper trail for ten years, how did Brown find him?
* If Milgrim was so far outside mainstream life that he generated no paper trail for ten years, how did Brown find him?
