Axel Bellman

He is the main antagonist in the Sally Lockhart book two The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman Axel Bellman is an industrialist in Victorian London and is an arms dealer. Frankly this is boring.

Biography
He was being blackmailed by his partner so he killed him in the North and this left a stain upon his business, hence the title. He decided to blow up an entire ship when the business got too risky and kill all the crew. He wanted to completely take over the shipping industry and the weapons market and enslave a load of Londoners, under pretence of ''employment'. He also was making a weapon named the Steam Gun, which was being used on a human witness. He abused Sally mentally and he also set their house on fire and killed her fuck buddy. Then Sally came up to his place and called him a pimp and killed him.