Homer Lynne

Lynne moves in the same comfortable circles as the men who sit in judgment on others, and his respectability is precisely what makes him interesting to vigilantes who have learned that the law protects the well-dressed. He is not a prisoner in the dock, not a blackmailer named in open court, and not a racecourse thug—he is the harder case, the man whose guilt or innocence cannot be settled by a jury's verdict. His presence in the early chapters forces the Four, and the reader, to ask what justice looks like when the accused wears a clean collar and a good name.