THE FOURTH MEMBER
Elliot Price
AGE
43 AT BOOK 1
HERITAGE
BRITISH
Elliot is the person who asks the obvious question that turns out not to be obvious at all. “But why would they call us?” is his first significant line in the series, and it establishes everything: he doesn’t have the team’s assumptions, which means he can see what they can’t.
“Four coffees. One of them may contain spite.”
“In the context of a two-billion-pound merger, it’s a rounding error.”
“Not wrong. Unusual.”
Forensic accountant. Grew up in Bath. The most conventional background of the four, which is the point. He can read a balance sheet the way Nadia reads a room — with instinctive pattern recognition disguised as tedious competence. People underestimate forensic accountants. Elliot has turned this into an art. He is funny in a way nobody expected, dry, late-arriving, precisely aimed. He lives in Camberwell with an unreasonable number of plants. He calls his parents every Wednesday.