Career of Evil Chapter 10

General Setting
Chapter 10 occurs immediately after Chapter 9 with Strike leaving Robin in The Court and walking across the street to the Japanese Canteen looking for the mysterious man. He then walks back towards Tottenham Court Station while taking a call from an old friend.

Oggy!!
In reference to Donald Laing... King's Own Royal Border Regiment

In reference to Noel Brockbank... 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

Journey to Whitechapel
Strike takes the tube to Whitechapel in hopes to see Shanker. He likely takes The Central Line to Mile End station then either The Distric Line or The Hammersmith & City line. Both stop at Whitechapel

Whitechapel to Aldgate East


Strike Climbs the stairs, walks outside, and makes a call to Shanker.

I struggled with this route for a while. I think the author is saying that Strike is wondering around and does not remember where the squat was. He sees the familiar metal bridge and crosses it. Once on the other side he sees and remembers Castlemain Street and then finally remembers where the Squat is. The main point that fixes this route vs. the more direct route is what the author says "he walked briskly out onto Whitechapel Road". If he had already been on Whitechapel this line might have read "he walked briskly back out onto Whitechapel Road".

Leaving Fulbourne Street
An Aside... While looking at the scene via Google Street View I noticed some unusual graffiti painted on a temporary street barrier. It was the work of Street Artist Nathan Bowen... Check him out. Facebook ::: Website

The narrative indicates Strike first reaches The Nags Head First and seeing that it is a Lap Dancing Club continues on to the next Starbucks. In reality, the Starbucks would have been encountered first and Strike would have had to double back from The Nags Head.

Editorial... I can relate very well to the people of the Whitechapel area, they apparently love Fried Chicken as much as I do. While researching I noticed that there were far more fried chicken places than there were Starbucks. 17:1 to be exact :-) My favorite is PFC. Not KFC, but PFC... Perfectly Fried Chicken. I wonder if their spokesperson is a white suited caricature of Nelson.

Notable Words and Phrases
Grassed up.: A-Level.: frit·ter: prof·li·gate: rag·gle-tag·gle: es·chew: gno·mic: