Under the counter

Traders of the lost arkIn the week that sees the launch of the over-hyped, distinctly tepid Da Vinci Code film I received a very strange piece of mail that got me wondering whether I might be on the edge of being drawn in to a nefarious conspiracy involving codes, treasure maps and the like. Not that it would make much difference as, to be fair, I wouldn't be bothered to follow it anyway. Still, this was quite strange: opening the envelope I discovered a single sheet of paper displaying no more than the image on the right and the caption "Separated at birth?" While the less sinister looking of the two men pictured is of course new Eurex boss Andreas Preuss, the other took some investigation. Eventually, the junior staff member I told to find out for...