History Characters / LethalWhite

HateSink: A horrible man and a worse father, exist, selfish and biased.

%%** He's a very obvious caricature of Alan Clark

* PosthumousCharacter: He is long dead by the time the novel starts, but we get a very good picture of the kind of person he was in life.

** He's a very obvious caricature of Alan Clark

[[Characters/ComoranStrikeNovels Her page is on the series-wide character page.]]

!!Isabella Chiswell

Jasper's second daughter who works as his assistant. She is over-worked, under-appreciated and yet constantly defends her father's behavior.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Izzie met Cormoran during the heyday of his relationship with Charlotte, and she hints to Robin that she found him very attractive. It's implied during the book that Izzy still does, but she's too shy to actually ask him out (not that Cormoran would ever date a client).
* ExtremeDoormat: Her father treats her little better than a slave, and not only does she not complain, she constantly defends him.
* LackOfEmpathy: Not as bad as most examples but she doesn't seem to care that much when Strike brings up Billy's abusive father when saying that [[spoiler: FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse for Raphael]].
* TheUnfavourite: No matter how hard she worked for him, her father neverloved her as much as Freddie.
* WhiteSheep: Despite her loyalty to her father, she is the only member of the family who is not a complete and total asshole.

* BuxomIsBetter: Other characters often mention her large bust.

* YourCheatingHeart: He cheated on his first wife with an Italian reporter.

* BigBrotherBully: He treated Raphael like crap whenever he came to Chiswell house.

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!Private Detectives

[[folder: Sam Barclay]]
!! Sam Barclay

A former soldier investigated for drug offences by Strike during his army days. Barclay uncovered contractors defrauding the British taxpayer, who then planted drugs in his possession. Strike saw the charges against Barclay dropped, but could not prevent his court martial. He later hires Barclay as a freelance investigator and has him infiltrate Jimmy Knight's gang.
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* FunetikAksent: Barclay has a ''very'' heavy Scottish accent, which is rendered this way on the page.
* HiddenDepths: During their first encounter Strike realized that the simple squaddie with a taste for drugs also had the natural instincts of a first-rate investigator.
* TheMole: He doesn't just keep tabs on Jimmy, he so successfully infiltrates his group that [[spoiler:Jimmy brings him along to search Flick's apartment.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As a Conservative politician with a unique and often mocked hairstyle, he bears a more than passing resemblance to Boris Johnson.

[[folder: Raffael Chiswell]]
!!Raffael Chiswell

Jasper's second son, born out of wedlock to an Italian model. Raffael has lived under the shadow of Freddie, who was killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq. He was imprisoned after killing a young mother in a drug-fuelled traffic accident.

** [[spoiler:Drawing Strike into the situation gets him hired by Jasper Chiswell and derails the blackmail plans of both Jimmy Knight and Geriant Winn.]]

[[folder: Geriant Winn]]
!!Geriant Winn

* TheWoobie: Poor Aamir has had terrible luck. [[spoiler: He was once a promising member of the Foreign Office until a senior diplomat made sexual advances towards him. When Mallik complained, his reputation was ruined, his family disowned him and the diplomat was protected despite his indiscretions being common knowledge. He finds employment within Della Winn's staff, only for Geriant to rope him into his criminal schemes and forcing him go to the diplomat who molested him to ask for favors to further Geraint’s vendetta against the Chiswells.]]

* AssholeVictim: After he was killed in action during the Irak War, Strike investigated his death. ''Everyone'' he interviewed immediately asked [[UnfriendlyFire if Freddie was shot by his own troops]].

This page is for character introduced in the novel ''Literature/LethalWhite''. For characters who appear across [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels the series]] see '''[[Characters/CormoranStrikeNovels here]]'''.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As a conservative politician with a unique and often mocked hairstyle, he bears a more than passing resemblance to Boris Johnson.

The mercurial and temperamental Minister for Culture. A lifelong member of the Conservatory party, he was once touted as a future Prime Minister until a series of scandals and affairs ruined his reputation. He hires Strike to find incriminating material to thwart a blackmail plot.

* StrawCharacter: She is practically a caricature of a far left fanatic.

Jimmy's younger brother with a history of mental illness, which is implied to be a result of unknowingly ingesting marijuana as a child.

* StrawCharacter: The man is walking, talking collection of every negative stereotype about far left activists.

* BriefAccentImitation: While talking to an undercover Robin

* SoapBoxSadie: A virulently leftist individual, despite her middle class background