++ Dossier: Thor Aronson ++
Consigliere of variable repute
Ergo:
- carries diplomatic passport from a failed Balkan republic
- suits look Saville Row but actually Chiang Mai
- speaks colloquial Greek & classical Aramaic from time in an Albanian prison for currency forgery
- published thesis on Egyptian shadow puppetry amongst working class Cairo
- scars and tic on left eye after crashing stolen tuktuk in Penang > 3 months hospital, left with bill unpaid taking a full grain of morphine and fled to Phitsanulok, dried out in Chennai
Alias: assumed name of “Rex Hayduke” (marine biologist specializing in marlin and other large, mercury-laden game fish)
Enjoys: Rimbaud poetry, Duras novels, and Chet Baker jams, Portuguese fado & Japanese enka music.
Prefers: fountain pens, white handkerchieves, full windsor knots, hot toddys with branch water and fresh notebooks which he fills, photographs & burns.
Whereabouts unknown, alert Interpol if spotted saying: “mahimahi is ready for grilling” they’ll understand, oh yes they will.
Delay escape by plying with mint shisha and backgammon (no wagering) .