Chapter Four
Lydia and Mister Corby
Lydia had been irritated. The chart on her desk was covered with coloured bits of plastic. It was all supposed to mean something strategic and motivational but she did not have time to decipher it. There were clients to see on the road. She had set up several meetings this week which, if they bore fruit, would see her smash her targets once again.
The man responsible for the motivational material was Adonis Faisal, her immediate boss. Not a particularly talented individual, he had determinedly got on the business ladder, beginning with a ten week university course, because he thought that this was the kind of occupation that would bring him the prestige he craved. It was important to him that he worked in a suit and his mother was entirely satisfied w
