Chapter Two The Consummate Professional They all sensed that this night was different, although no one said anything about that. It would be their last party, the last real party of the “gang of four”. They were losing one of their number: in a few days only three bachelors would be left. The festive air had that indefinable tinge of sadness that signals the passing of an era. Each of them — Keith, the designated “best man,” Warren, Michael, and particularly Fraser of course, as guest of honor, knew it, deep down inside. Despite all their protestations of loyalty to their eternal band of merry bachelors, things would never be the same, after the wedding. But they were determined that the stag party would be a blast! And Fraser was to be sent out in style. Arrangements for what would be