# Ware Bannon — The Lone Wolf character guide

> Ware Bannon in The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance.

**Role:** supporting

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

**First appearance:** 0000-i-troyon-s

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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.

## Relationships

### [Michael Lanyard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/characters/michael_lanyard)

_friendship_

Michael and Ware Bannon are allies or friends, possibly connected through Lucia.

### [Michael Lanyard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/characters/michael_lanyard)

_friendship_

Michael and Ware Bannon are allies or friends, possibly connected through Lucia.

## In the story

### [III: A Point of Interrogation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xiii-confessional)

Suspected by Lanyard of orchestrating the plot against him; the girl acknowledges his hatred for Lanyard.

### [XIV: Rive Droit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xiv-rive-droit)

Mentioned as having escaped the fire with his secretary Greggs.

### [Enigma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xviii-enigma)

Seen with the party at Viel's, leaning on De Morbihan's arm.

### [Unmasked](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xix-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xxi-apostate)

Lanyard suspects Bannon of harboring a personal animus and plans to force an accounting.

### [XXII: Trapped](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xxii-trapped)

Mentioned as the mastermind coercing Lucia to steal the jewels under threat of killing Lanyard.

### [Daybreak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lone_wolf_se/chapters/xxvii-daybreak)

Reported dead after a fatal haemorrhage during arrest; revealed as the mastermind behind the 'International Underworld Unlimited' scheme.

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