"I do not desire the book itself so much as I desire its 
designer—the artifex Hackworth," Dr. X said. "As long as the book was 
somewhere in the Leased Territories, there was some hope that Hackworth could 
find it—it is the one thing he desires most. If I could have found the 
book, I could have extinguished that hope, and Hackworth would then have had to 
approach me, either to get the book back or to compile another copy."