Mike, your vocabulary is vast, I'll give you that. I had to look up what a "chine" is, and to be honest, I'm still not sure.

I have a couple of questions, but I'll go back and reread a few tiles before I raise them. I think I'm getting my characters mixed up. The cast reminds me a bit of Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", only nobody's Russian (thankfully).