(urth) An Evil Guest - Big Questions, Major SPOILERS

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:23 PM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't answer all of that, but "Arthur Thomas Franklin" is a
> government agency--presumably slang for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
> and Firearms--the ATF (now officially Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
> Explosives, but still ATF).

I'm still catching up, since I *just* got it and read it, but it is
without a doubt an ATF reference. There's even a Waco allusion in
there!*

* If I'm not reading too much into the veiled comments about their
stubbornness and propensity to violence.

-- 
gwern