A grifting fake customs inspector shaking down relief ships on ruined Ganymede, run off at gunpoint by Holden.
Mr. Vedas presents himself as the customs inspector for port eleven on Ganymede, flanked by two Taser-armed "security guards" in non-authority uniforms. Holden recognizes the con — demand the manifest, declare certain plum items wrongly listed, then steal and resell food and medicine on the moon's booming black market. Holden pulls a pistol, threatens to set Amos on him, and sends Vedas and his rent-a-cops fleeing.
A stick-thin man with a handsome face and an egg-shaped bald head; a squeaky voice when cornered.
A petty extortionist profiteering off Ganymede's disaster.