d have stayed and tried to get to the sea he told her of to meet her and to take her to America. Or did he delay meeting Talya, back track, kill Zamatev, and then escape again. In which case he meets Talya and has to escape with her again to the Bearing Strait. Arkady Zamatev, the colonel to be. What of him? What could there been of him after "the American" had reuined his reputation. There could have been nothing and the same friend that warned him of the dangers of "the American" would be the same one who told him of his resignation. Or could he so upset about the escape, twice, that he committed suicide in his tiny little office. I dunno it's up to you on this one but maybe this'll be more than a five paragraph essay thing. So there are just a few ways that the book did end without warning, incomplete if you will, and a few ways that they could end. And there you have it a five paragraph essay thing about the incomplete story-lines and the ways that they could have ended. ...
