Who is Pong from The Last Supper: A Novel and what is their importance? The_Last_Supper_(novel) English & Literature Pong | The Last Supper: A Novel

This is Barnabas "Barney" Wolkowicz's Thai driver while he heads The Outfit's Saigon office in the mid-1960s. Pong is an amiable thug. On the night that Paul next flies to Saigon, Pong on Barney's orders kills Paul's enemies, the Truong toc and Nguyên Kim. He also hospitalizes pilot Gus Kimber so his plane can be stolen and fly Paul into China, where he is arrested as a spy and imprisoned for ten years. Barney helps Pong and his family immigrate to the United States and set up the Thai Pagoda restaurant in Alexandria, VA. a drop site for contacting Barney. Paul learns from Pong that Gus, the supposedly dead Chinese pilot who had flown him into China is alive in California. Pong is the proud owner of a cabin cruiser, which he lends to Barney at the end of the novel. Barney stages his suicide on the cruiser to look like a professional hit.