Who is Scott Martineau from Mao II and what is their importance?

Scott is Bill Gray's personal assistant. In his mid-thirties, he is portrayed throughout the narrative as a somewhat obsessive and controlling personality. His strength, commitment and skills come in undeniably useful for someone as lost in himself as Bill is. As narration reveals, however, Scott seems to see himself almost as more important in Bill's life than Bill's own desires, drives, and nature. Scott, it seems, is determined to save Bill from himself, defining himself and his identity almost entirely in terms of what he self-righteously believes to be what's best for the man and the work he obviously reveres with idealism bordering on the worshipful.