Conrad Knox

Conrad Knox is the main antagonist of Vengeance. Knox is a billionaire philanthropist running food aid, vaccination and weapons disarmament projects across Africa who believes that the continent has never fully escaped its colonial-era heritage. He recommissions four Apartheid-era nuclear weapons and acquires the trigger devices from a Libyan nuclear scientist. Knox plans to stage a coup in Zimbabwe with the warheads used as a deterrent to force the West into withdrawing its interests from Africa. When his plan is thwarted, he attempts to distribute the warheads to radical groups to fulfil his plan. Section 20 intervene again, prompting Knox to keep the remaining warheads in Johannesburg where he intends to detonate them in the vaults of a colonial-era bank that he believes is a symbol of the corruption at the foundation of modern Africa. He attempts to flee when Scott and Stonebridge disarm the remaining weapons, but as he is a wanted man, he is recognised by members of the public and shoots himself.