Risk AssessmentHis day job was assessing risk, and he was very good at it. Tom Doyle helped his bank avoid some of the catastrophic losses that tore through its competitors in 2008 and was well compensated for it. But this had nothing to do with risk assessment. This was, in a phrase that he would shutter to apply to other people’s money, “taking a flyer.” He was like someone who’d become enamored by some exotic financial instrument or high-tech start-up, lost to anything but the upside of Eileen.
Since Wendy died three years earlier, he was a frequent topic of discussion in certain parts of Chappaqua. The two were fixtures in the cocktail-party/family-barbeque/country-club-events sprinkled through the calendar. Wendy’s death had hit their social circle hard, and all of them were on the l
