And amid the detritus, one could find a scrawled phrase by a character in an earlier novel by Robert Littel, Mother Russia , a man improbably named Robespierre  I have seen the future, and it needs work.
The character was new for the series.
mnli hypothesis: The character was new for the series. premise: And amid the detritus, one could find a scrawled phrase by a character in an earlier novel by Robert Littel, Mother Russia , a man improbably named Robespierre  I have seen the future, and it needs work.