Charles Phillips answers “Do you think the character who calls...”

Maureen asked this question about Bad Actors (Slough House, #8):

Do you think the character who calls himself Spartacus (helping Shirley at the Sans rehab center during the attack) is River Cartwright?

Charles Phillips In the movie Spartacus, the slaves are fighting Rome and the Roman Army. They are eventually defeated and a lot of the slave army are captured. The Ro…moreIn the movie Spartacus, the slaves are fighting Rome and the Roman Army. They are eventually defeated and a lot of the slave army are captured. The Romans want to make an example of the leader, Spartacus, and ask who is Spartacus? The slave army is so devoted to their leader that many of them stand up and claim to be Spartacus.

In Bad Actors, if the guy who said "I am Spartcus" had been River Cartwright, Shirley Dander would have said something. Also, the earlier description of the "twitcher" said that he had thinning blond hair and a goatee - he is the one who said that he was Spartacus (page 284 in the hardback version). I think what he said was to tell us that the twitcher had some serious cognitive problems. (less)

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