Richard Aidey

Hello, Cassie.

Well, my first thought was that you couldn't get anyone good...

And you worked your way down the list.

And I'm local, you know.

You know where I work and I'm cheap.

But no, look, work is such a big part of our lives and it's often part of our identity.

And the interesting thing, these novels are very different, but the interesting thing is that they are about work but also they are about work as a stage, about where things happen as much as what happens.

So I can see why you wanted to talk to me.

This is such an odd job.

So, yeah, she has to watch this one guy.

They've filled his apartment with cameras.

He works from home.

He's, as Cassie says, he's a writer.

He's working on a novel extremely slowly.

And most of the time he's sort of writing other bits and bobs.

But he's very distractible.

He, like many people who work in creative industries, he always finds another reason to go and eat something or do something else.

Or he watches a lot of DVDs and things he's recorded.

His name's Yamamoto.

And the reason he's being watched is because, although he doesn't know it, a friend or acquaintance of his has sent him some smuggled contraband.