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* [[Bait the Dog]]: For a lot of the book, it's easy to think of Zakalwe as a really cool and [[Badass]] secret agent and to think that his handlers from the Culture are off-base when they refer to him as a dangerous psycho. Certain events in his past change that impression.
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Elethiomel borders on this in a twisted way; part of him really has come to believe that he IS Cheradenine}}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: This is the Culture's [[Planet of Hats|hat]] throughout the series, but there's a rather good quote about it in this book (posted on
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Cheradenine and Elethiomel Zakalwe are an interesting take on this, as the flashbacks present Cheradenine as something of the Cain, being a jerk to his adopted brother Elethiomel {{spoiler|then it turns out that the Cheradenine of the novel is actually Elethiomel and he did a [[Moral Event Horizon]] crossing event that made him the Cain figure}}.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Done on both a strategic and tactical level by Zakalwe and Elethiomel, especially in the flashbacks ( {{spoiler|because the latter has assumed the former's identity}}). It's not called ''Use Of Weapons'' just because of the guns.
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