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the Fund Manager’s personal secretary to interview Mr Alexis Vasilakos and his personal chauffeur, Eddie Slater at Number 60 Lombard Street at 11am tomorrow.

3
    Monday 25th April

    Once his shift is over, John goes back to his cheap flat near Finsbury Park in north London where he finds his fiancée on the lounge floor with Mustard, their pet cat. Rebecca is deeply engrossed in watching play-back of the video they’d taken during their recent nature-watching holiday in Tenerife. She glances up momentarily to say ‘Hi honey’ before returning to the output from their camcorder.
    Whereas most people go on holiday to lie on beaches and while-away their time reading trashy novels, Rebecca and John spend their summer holidays indulging in their shared passion for filming wildlife, and the rarer and more exotic it is the better. Living close to Epping Forest as a young girl, Rebecca’s interest in the natural world began by watching the local birds, foxes and badgers until she expanded her curiosity to cover anything that crawled, slithered or swam. And it didn’t take long in their relationship before John got consumed in her interest as well, so now they’re forever planning trips away, like their recent holiday to the Canaries to find and film species such as the indigenous bottlenose dolphins, loggerhead turtles and the colourful varieties of local lizards and birds.
    John and Rebecca, once merely enthusiasts are now rapidly becoming quite experienced at filming wildlife in its natural habitat. Just prior to their holiday they’d upgraded their camcorder to a cutting edge high definition model with an in-built hard drive so large as to be able to store several days’ worth of continuous recording. Exactly what they’d need to cope with the enormous amount of footage they always seem to take during the course of a fortnight’s holiday.
    John can see Rebecca’s so deeply engrossed in watching the play-back that there’s no chance of her doing any cooking tonight and since he doesn’t fancy offering to do any himself he begins looking through a Chinese take-away menu in the kitchen whilst he pours his fiancée a large glass of Chardonnay. Once he’s popped the cap off a chilled lager he’s taken from the fridge he rejoins her in the lounge and passes her the menu along with her glass. “Dinner’s on me tonight…take your pick.”
    Modestly believing to be at best ‘average looking’, John considers himself to have done very well in snaring a girlfriend as pretty as Rebecca Kavanagh. They’d gotten to know each other because of her being the little sister of his best friend Steve. And despite having been together for several years now, John still finds himself captivated by her full-lipped smile, her long soft hair and her velvety smooth skin.
    â€œSo, how was work Beccs?”
    Never needing to be asked twice to begin a conversation, Rebecca begins venting all the frustrations that have built up during her day.
    â€œWell apart from my spineless boss continuing to be too hesitant and gutless to act on the pretty conclusive data I keep giving him???”
    This gripe is not new to John’s ears; he gets to hear about it more than several times a week. “Actually, there’s something I need to tell you about…this afternoon Steve rang me to tell me he thinks he’s about to be laid off again.”
    John rolls his eyes upwards at the ceiling in despair. Steve Kavanagh’s career as an architectural steel fabricator seems destined to fail. In the current recession, the building construction industry is being particularly hard hit with companies large and small cutting staff in an attempt to tough-it-out through these lean times.
    She bemoans the situation further, “And if he’s right, it’ll be the second time in six months. He’s already got £20k of debt, and now he’s facing the dole yet