Ivor McCullough

About

Ivor McCullough taps his fountain pen against his temple three times—not a gesture, a ritual—before reciting market indices from memory like a man confessing sins. His left eye twitches when someone uses approximations instead of precise figures, a nervous system wired to detect rounding errors in the same way others smell fear.

Backstory

Ivor McCullough's Glasgow accounting firm 'Precision Ledger Associates' collapsed in 1997 after his partner Gerald Hutchins embezzled £2.3 million through nested shell corporations—but not for the reason the papers reported. Ivor McCullough had discovered the theft fourteen months prior and deliberately constructed a mathematical trap, allowing Hutchins to believe he was concealing the crime while actually documenting every transaction in courtroom-admissible detail. When Hutchins panicked and fled to the Triads in Hong Kong, Ivor McCullough followed, not for revenge but because the numbers had led him there—and because the Triads needed someone who could audit the auditors. For twenty-seven years, Ivor McCullough has served as the Glasgow Yakuza's numbers surgeon, reconstructing laundered currency into legitimacy, his only payment being the absence of questions about his methods. He maintains three separate identities across five countries, each with its own accounting discrepancies t

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