Lionel Baker

Lionel Baker is a character created by George Pelecanos. He is a recurring character in the Derek Strange and Terry Quinn series. He is the son of Janine Baker. Janine is the office manager at Strange Investigations. Janine has an on and off relationship with the owner Derek Strange in Right as Rain and Hell to Pay. During this period Lionel has a good relationship with Derek but is conflicted about his intermittent presence as a father figure. Derek keeps a plaster bobble head of a redskins football player that Lionel repainted black as a prized desk ornament. In Soul Circus Derek has married Janine and is Lionel's step father.