More interesting. Story has moved to Ben Kipling, money launderer. Threat of violence to Kipling. Author also does a good job describing the hard-to-get-your head around massiveness of the new wealth. Class distinctions between regular rich people and unimaginably rich people and regular people. Our survivor, Scott the Painter, is now staying with another fantastically wealthy person--Layla. Art lover, she can make his career . . . but he is standoffish about her power. Still a bit shell-shocked, though this is one of the least convincing aspects of the book.
Solid opening 30 minutes (we're treating this like a mini-series). O's involvement with left-wing causes . . . rift with Einstein (O thinks of him as over-the-hill and Einstein knows it.) First splitting of atom. Lawrence Lab in Berkeley--Lawrence practical applied physics . . . not O's strength. Main actor is from Peaky Blinders.
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