Identified only as a "Mombasa tycoon", aged 52, possibly of Arab heritage, closely linked to the political elite, his identity remains shadowy.
The creative fields have long had their shadowy practitioners, figures whose identities, whether because of scandalous content (the author of "Story of O"), fear of ostracism (Joe Klein), aversion to nepotism (Stephen King's son Joe Hill), or conceptual necessity (Sacha Baron Cohen), remain, at least for a time, unknown.
In preliminary materials furnished to The New York Times last month, Oliver Rathkolb, the lead historian, said he had learned, from a "highly trustworthy and well-informed witness," the identity of a shadowy presence and promised to reveal it with the entire study.
Hannah is in town to plug her role in Sense8, an audacious, globe-hopping Netflix series about fluid identities and the shadowy links between the present and the past.
They'd better, because we still don't know the identity of Gertrude's shadowy puppet-master and the suspense is unbearable.
Rabid discussion over the true identity of Christoph Waltz's shadowy bad guy started almost immediately after the character was announced with most convinced he was playing legendary Bond villain Blofeld.
They are, in my imagination, a shadowy cast, all passwords, insignia and hidden identities.
Angrily waving a finger, McCain portrayed his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, as a shadowy figure who never seemed to reveal his true identity.
These include Paddy Ashdown and David Davis (a leading critic of creeping surveillance), as well as the former director of GCHQ, David Omand, and a shadowy figure from government, responsible for national security, whose identity isn't revealed.
In several towns along the Turkey-Syria border, rebel commanders can be found seeking weapons and meeting with shadowy intermediaries, in a chaotic atmosphere where the true identities and affiliations of any party can be extremely difficult to ascertain.
