CHAPTER 31
The Ramifications of her Actions
Across from the Statehouse, Leland and Bill shared a coffee confab—seated across from each other in a booth—in the first-floor diner of the Galleria.
“Well, I tell you something else, Bill,” said Leland, who was executive director of the LBO. “I compared her letter to the editor of the Chronicle with the one she wrote as a graduate student to the editor of the university newspaper. And in my opinion, this is authentic P. J. Austin, all right. It’d take more than a copycat to have written that letter. Priscilla’s style is unmistakably straightforward. She sucks you in, then she spits your heart out like a pit from a peach. She leaves nothing to chance. Once she attacks, she completes the job.”
“I know, but I still don’t get it,” Bill said angr
