Abelard Malcolm Tyler Lindsay (The Schismatrix)

Lindsay is from the Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic and travels to the Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu seeking political asylum. Lindsay is indicted after the fall of the Shapers to the Mechanists. He is disgraced and seen as an embarrassment, but this action only strengthens his resolve. In combination with Constantine, they form a team that is formidable, but Vera Kelland comes between them with a suicide pact.

After Vera's death, Lindsay is targeted by Constantine, but the attempt on his life is unsuccessful. He lives in exile on Zaibatsu until Constantine sends an assassin to finish what he so long ago started. By then Lindsay has managed to eke out a good existence, becoming a producer and convincing all factions on the planet to support his endeavors in one fashion or another.

Lindsay turns the tables on the assassin, who arrives...