Okay, I was kind of thinking along the lines of your last paragraph. I think the muggers were working for Rycart. I just don't see how Kroll could assume that a decoy manuscript would be stolen. The way Rycart acted when he got his hands on the actual memoirs at the diner sort of...
Agree with all your comments. Don't care for the man but boy can he put together a film. One thing I thought about after the movie that wasn't clear to me. A macguffin perhaps? After landing the job in London, Ewan's character walked out of the building with that lawyer's...