The leader of the Big Coffin Hunters, the trio of older hired guns working for John Farson in the Barony of Mejis. An old man with a pronounced limp and long white hair, Jonas is cunning, dangerous, and unburdened by anything that might encourage him to be otherwise. He was once a gunslinger's apprentice himself, failed his testing, and was sent west in the cold formality of that disgrace - a wound he has been a long time carrying. He coordinates the Mejis end of Farson's conspiracy with the unhurried thoroughness of a man who has been planning this kind of work for considerably more years than the three boys from Gilead have been alive.