Hold up, you didn’t highlight that last part? The part about how Soviets ACCIDENTALLY Turned lead shielding into gold with an experimental nuclear reactor???
I have fear that “La Vie Ephémère” is foreshadowing Reid and Lou’s death. We have been told there will be major character deaths, and in La Vie Ephémère the lovers die by the end… Reid and Lou discuses the book with Reid saying that that book ends in hope.