abstract:Thomas Fowler, (died 1590), English lawyer, diplomat, courtier, spy, servant of the Countess of Lennox, broker of the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, steward of the Earl of Leicester, advisor to James VI of Scotland and the Scottish ambassador in London, Archibald Douglas.
Yet he brings his own illumination to the role of ThomasFowler, an aging English journalist who suddenly finds that his exquisite Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, is being courted by a handsome young American named Alden Pyle.