I’ve learned two things so far:
1 I have to stop being disdainful of novelisations (although that is an incredibly ugly label to place on a piece of writing) as this one is well written and doesn’t depend on or let itself be limited by the movie*s storytelling approach
2, Sitting in the UK a few months before my countrymen voluntarily leep off the Brexit cliff makes reading this much more frightening than it used to be.q