# Monsieur Felix — The Powerhouse character guide

> Monsieur Felix in The Powerhouse by John Buchan.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Felix

**First appearance:** 0007-v-i-take-a-partner

## Snapshot

A grave, sunburnt diplomat at the Embassy whose discreet favors and encyclopedic knowledge of Central Asian routes give the narrator his only official foothold.

## Who they are

Felix is a rising young man of the Foreign Service, learned, ambitious, and just boyish enough beneath the gold lace to bend protocol for a friend. He and the narrator trade ciphers and confidences over a German atlas, mapping the mad routes a fugitive might take south of Bokhara. His willingness to wire the Military Governor — and his quiet grasp of how far a man in danger might run — makes him the story's hinge between London drawing rooms and the wild country beyond.

## In the story

### [IV: I Follow the Trail of the Super-Butler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/chapters/iv-i-follow-the-trail-of-the-super-butler)

Leithen's friend at the Embassy; helps cable warnings about Saronov and Tuke to the Russian police.

### [VI: The Restaurant in Antioch Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/chapters/vi-the-restaurant-in-antioch-street)

Calls Leithen at the flat to report the outcome of the hunters' attack: one dead, Saronov captured and confessing.

### [I Find Sanctuary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/chapters/vii-i-find-sanctuary)

Leithen's contact at the Embassy; receives the evidence and provides sanctuary.

### [Return of the Wild Geese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/chapters/ix-return-of-the-wild-geese)

Helps arrange the telegraphing of Lumley's death news to a Russian paper; trusted to keep silent.

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