[RedStateRocker]

As with Tom Clancy and Robert Heinlein, it's the villains that are often the most interesting characters and the heroes that seem flat and unsympathetic.

[higgmeister]

As with Tom Clancy and Robert Heinlein, it's the villains that are often the most interesting characters and the heroes that seem flat and unsympathetic.

I think Woodrow Wilson Smith, Jubal Harshaw, Valentine Michael Smith, Wyoming Knott, Mycroft Holmes (Adam Selene), to mention only a few seemed neither flat nor unsympathetic, well the latter for being a sentient computer.