I may be a bit late, but I realy do not understand this twist in the latest book with Hoffman and his understading of Lucius bureaucratic machine. In my view it is so ridiculous!
Why should we stop only on the bureaucracy, let's give him understanding of "body mechanics", so he could help McMourning in the morgue. Or why he still don't "feel" the "war machine" (in the meaning of all processes duering war like production supplies and battle actions), so he cuild be not only brilliant engineer, but also a genious general and strategist. Or we can find some other idiomatic phrases, that refer to some mechanics or enginnering words, to give Hoffman more skills.
So as you can see I am a bit upset about such twist in the story and want to know if any other wyrdos are too?