Aposiopesis is one of those literary tropes you learn while studying "The Aeneid" in high school Latin, and it stuckinmyhead better than many others over the intervening years.
But back to the businessman whose hotel room was tossed: It has also stuckinmyhead because while it is the most egregious example of corporate espionage it only hints at what happens at the low-level.
On the stunted commercial street in town, there were three places still open for business, one of them the diner, and I ate there once and stuckmyheadin the door two or three times, scanning the booths.