Devon Welles
Who they are
A Dog — former Job, like Emma Flyte (C03) — who spends the book doing the two things the Dogs do: checking people’s paperwork and turning up when someone’s gone missing. C03 has him bring Flyte the vetting background on Zafar Jaffrey’s brother and on Dodie Gimball’s forthcoming story; C08 has him arrive at Slough House looking for Jackson Lamb’s gun; C12 has him in the kennel arguing that any crowd is a target.
He is the more doctrinaire of the two Dogs: Flyte follows the procedure, Welles believes it. That is what makes his “any crowd is a target” plainly right and plainly useless — the Service’s problem all book.
Book 5 — London Rules
- C03 — Supplies the vetting material on Karim Jaffrey and the Gimballs’ impending story.
- C08 — Arrives at Slough House to collect Lamb’s gun, and is asked instead to invent a story that gets Lamb into the Park.
- C10 — With Flyte, reviewing the state of the investigation.
- C11 — Argues the crew’s dud bomb shows a checklist, not an infrastructure attack.
- C12 — Present as Flyte confronts Taverner over the abandoned lockdown.
- C13 — In the kennel during the memorial service; argues the crowd itself is the target, and is half right.
Book 6 — Joe Country
- C05 — Named as the Hub colleague Louisa Guy suggests Emma Flyte approach instead of going through Roderick Ho.
- C09 — Pulls Min Harper’s personnel file for Emma, which is how she gets the address of the Welsh cottage. No scene: the file is all the book uses him for.
- C12 — Named by Emma as the one person at the Park who would still take her calls if the rest stopped answering. She never gets to make the call.
- C14 — After her death, recorded only as having worked closely with Emma Flyte, and as someone Louisa Guy has spoken to.