The Uninvited

Taiwan whistle-blower?’Sunny Chen. I quicken my pace.I say, ‘You’ll have my report by latetomorrow.’Ashok says, ‘About that.’I once overheard a colleague referringto Ashok as ‘an irritating jerk’. But I likehim. I like his leather and aftershave smelland his playful if somewhat childishnature, and I don’t mind that he calls meMaestro or Spock. When I’m in London,we’ll sometimes go for a drink together bythe Thames, where he introduces me as thePussy Magnet and himself as the PussyMagnet’s Horny Sidekick, and in betweenbuying drinks for women he wants to havesex with, he tells me about his latestlosses on the stock exchange, which heseems to find amusing, like a spectacle