The Lone Wolf · Character

Ware Bannon

A sonorous, coughing figure of the criminal Pack whose reappearance in a Paris café turns the Lone Wolf's blood cold and his evening murderous.

supporting

Also known as Mr. Bannon, Bannon, Archer Bannon, Monsieur Bannon

First appearance: i troyon s

As a supporting figure in The Lone Wolf, Ware Bannon is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

The elderly American man with a racking cough and tormented expression, dining with De Morbihan and the girl.

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Bannon moves through the story as a voice before a face — that unmistakable cough, those genial, threatening accents — and his crew stands between Lanyard and the woman he cannot forget. He represents the Pack's grip on the city, a rival predator whose presence transforms a routine night of taxi-banditry into a reckoning. His pursuit of Lucy Shannon's bondage, and Lanyard's willingness to go through him to break it, drives the middle arc toward open collision.

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Supporting and peripheral figures
Criminal underworld players
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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

Setup
Escalation
Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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Michael Lanyard
friendship · positive
Michael and Ware Bannon are allies or friends, possibly connected through Lucia. How this plays out →
Michael Lanyard
friendship · positive
Michael and Ware Bannon are allies or friends, possibly connected through Lucia. How this plays out →

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III: A Point of Interrogation
The elderly American man with a racking cough and tormented expression, dining with De Morbihan and the girl.
XIII: Confessional
Suspected by Lanyard of orchestrating the plot against him; the girl acknowledges his hatred for Lanyard.
XIV: Rive Droit
Mentioned as having escaped the fire with his secretary Greggs.
Enigma
Seen with the party at Viel's, leaning on De Morbihan's arm.
Unmasked
Referred to as 'the Old Man' and the commander-in-chief of the criminal organization, Bannon is implicated in Roddy's murder and is the target of Lanyard's hatred.
XXI: Apostate
Lanyard suspects Bannon of harboring a personal animus and plans to force an accounting.
XXII: Trapped
Mentioned as the mastermind coercing Lucia to steal the jewels under threat of killing Lanyard.
Daybreak
Reported dead after a fatal haemorrhage during arrest; revealed as the mastermind behind the 'International Underworld Unlimited' scheme.

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