Tony Clementi is the main villain in the novel. He is a closeted homosexual who torments and abuses Lani as a way of punishing himself for his shame. Tony tries to molest Lani outside a bar one evening, and when his friends approach, Tony swears that Lani was coming on to him. From them on, Tony is on a mission to torment Lani. He phones him hundreds of times a day, masturbating on the other line. He sends gay porn to Lani's house, and at the end of the novel, breaks in to Lani's house, kidnaps him, and kills him. In the aftermath of Lani's disappearance, Tony is so haunted by Lani's ghost that he drives his truck off the highway.
