Ch. 19Pelops was angry. And in anger, Pelops was definitely not to be confused with a man with whom one could hope to reason. More fair to say that he did not resemble any normal description of man. His unnerving and sullen brand of phlegmatism gave way to an unpredictable, red-eyed rage. To volunteer to be in his vicinity at such a time was as risky as eating tomatoes grown at Chernobyl.
This bout of anger was attributable to the realisation that he was going to be short-changed by Mainwaring to the tune of ten million dollars. This was made evident after a City of London web-mail had announced globally that the tycoon was persona non grata in the financial world. The decision had been taken by the world’s leading banks pending clarification of insider dealing allegations against him tha
