![]() ![]() No Celebrities Were Harmed: Based on a combination of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.Manipulative Bastard: He's not as charismatic as Boone, but the first chapter makes it clear that he's been playing various groups (particularly the Arabs) like a fiddle.Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When we see his second POV section, he's a much more complicated person than the villain he seems to be in the prologue.It's All My Fault / My God, What Have I Done?: Not a sudden realization, but a gradual one - After Nicosia he slowly comes to realize that he screwed everything up for everyone, and that he is the only one who knows it.I Did What I Had to Do: In regards to John Boone. ![]() (Granted, Michel thinks his French is awful and Maya describes his Russian as "very bad".) Cunning Linguist: Chalmers is the most polyglottal of all the First Hundred, speaking five languages.Beneath the Mask: He is very, very rarely open about his true feelings, and behind the mask he has a lot of anger and contempt for people, even the ones he feels the most affection for.Be All My Sins Remembered: He is actually angered by the fact that Maya falls in love with him some time after the night in Nicosia, because in his opinion he doesn't deserve it.His first act in the book is engineering a riot and the death of his old friend, John Boone, but there's more to him than that. Frank is cynical and ruthlessly pragmatic. Frank ChalmersHead of the American contingent. ![]()
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