His character is rather similar to Barty Crouch Jr. in the Harry Potter series. Colton Banes is a secondary antagonist in "Nightrise". At the beginning of the novel, he and his partner, Kyle Hovey (whom he despises), are sent by Susan Mortlake to capture Scott and Jamie Tyler. After a chase across the Reno circus, Jamie escapes thanks to a woman named Alicia McGuire but Scott is captured. After their failure, they frame Jamie as the murderer of his guardian Don and his wife Marcie whom they both kill. When confronted by Susan Mortlake over the failure of their mission, Hovey tries to put the blame on Banes. However, Mortlake orders Banes to kill Hovey as there was no place for the weak in Nightrise. Banes is apparently promoted after this as he is seated in an office on one of Nightrise's high floors when Jamie Tyler comes to get the location of his brother. Later, after Jamie escaped him, Banes gets a message from Max Koring, the chief guardian at Silent Creek prison that he was holding Jamie. Banes headed to the prison intending on having his revenge on Jamie. However, as soon as he arrives, the Native Americans attack Silent Creek and Jamie escapes. However, Banes shoots him in the back during this time, sending Jaime into a short coma-like state. Banes is killed shortly after by an arrow, shot by an Indian. Rasheed is the mayor of Egypt when Scarlett and Richard arrive. He is corrupt and spoilt, feeds off poverty, and steals wealth. He spends all his time at the casino finding young girls. He also gambles. Scarlett challenges him to a gamble and she wins, to his surprise. Rasheed takes her back to his palace and tries to seduce her. But later on, his wife Jaheda is disgusted and arranges for Richard and Scarlett to escape along with Larry Carter, a pilot who was being imprisoned. She says that her husband is dangerous and would kill them if he captured them again. The Chairman of the Nightrise Corporation is a mysterious man, he is very vain and has a great fear of boats (when he was twelve, a fortune teller told him he'd be killed in an accident involving a boat). He has obviously spent lots of money trying to make himself look younger and he has long white hair which looks like a wig but is in fact his own. The chairman, like the President, prefers to be addressed as `Mr Chairman` and he lives in Hong Kong, in the town of Kowloon, which means `Nine Dragons.`  The chairman constantly maintains contact with his executives throughout the world, and, as he is such a mysterious character, he only appears twice in "Nightrise": once in which he is talking to the executives of Nightrise and Diego Salamanda, where it is revealed Salamanda is the chairman's agent in Peru.