Still no sign of the book arriving at the warehouse, however the ebooks were released late last night so I did treat myself to the first chapter (rather have the paper copy for fun reading, though ... I only have the e-editions as handy indexes to who's connected to who (even the series' main character has thought to himself that one needs a spreadsheet to keep track of everybody's politics and relatives and associations and man'chi ***GRIN***)
And so ...
"One has come to know that child all too well, and her father will be lucky if he dies of old age."