Who is Gus Kimber from The Last Supper: A Novel and what is their importance? The_Last_Supper_(novel) English & Literature Gus Kimber | The Last Supper: A Novel

Protagonist Paul Christopher accepts that a wrinkled, flat-faced old, and Cockney-speaking Chinese pilot in Saigon, Vietnam, is his friend Barnabas "Barney" Wolkowicz's friend. Paul hires him to fly him to Hue, but Gus gets lost and lands in the Republic of China. Prevented from taking off from a deserted airfield, Gus emerges shooting and running for the tree line while Paul is thrown to the ground. Paul believes that he sees Gus torn apart by gunfire, but later is sure that he sees and hears him in a Peking hospital. At the end of the novel, it develops that this Gus steals the real Gus Kimber's plane after Kimber is beaten up in the strip bar. Paul flies to Blythe, CA, to talk to him, viewing the ancient intaglios from the air.