Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by
Former US Secretary of Defense and the First Wallfacer — the strategist whose public plan was a kamikaze drone swarm and whose secret plan was to defect to the Trisolarans with a cargo of water. Confronted by his Wallbreaker, he drowned himself in Luo Ji's lake.
Tyler is intelligent, vain, and corroded by a conviction that small countries always win the long game — a thesis he wrote a book about and never let go. He accepts Wallfacer status the way other men accept honorary degrees. The reality of the role — that no one will ever know whether he is sane — undoes him. His secret plan is monstrous and clever and would not have worked, and being told this to his face by a stranger inside a virtual reality bar is what kills him. He dies by walking into Luo Ji's pond at dawn, suit and shoes on.
A heavyset American in his sixties, in dark conservative suits with the lapel-pin habits of a Washington lifer. Thinning silver hair, jowled face, the wide unsmiling mouth of a man who has spent decades being photographed at podiums. He moves slowly and deliberately, with the leftover authority of a man who used to control the strategic posture of a nuclear power.
Also known as: Tyler, Mr. Secretary, 弗雷德里克·泰勒