Editing Mars trilogy (section)

====Phyllis Boyle====
A Christian American geologist with a harsh personality that does not win her many friends among the First Hundred and gains particular enmity from Ann Clayborne. As the Mars situation develops, Boyle sides against most of the First Hundred in favor of the increasingly authoritarian United Nations Office of Mars Affairs (UNOMA) and its successor, the [[corporate]]/quasi-fascist United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTA). Her influence is strongest during the later events of ''Red Mars'', where by the 2061 revolution she has been placed in charge of the asteroid Clarke that serves as the counterweight of the First [[Space Elevator]].  The events of the revolution send Clarke (and Boyle) spinning off into the outer Solar System at the end of ''Red Mars''; ''Green Mars'' finds her back in the equation, but her influence is greatly reduced against the backdrop of a much-expanded UNTA presence.  Boyle engages in a brief sexual relationship with Saxifrage Russell (who despises her) while the latter is living under an assumed identity and is singularly capable of discerning who he really is, turning him over the UNTA.  She is later present at a session in Kasei Vallis where Russell is being tortured, and is killed by Maya Toitovna.  Later, as his memory recovers, Russell reveals that Boyle had been opposed to his torture and was demanding that he be released at the time that Maya's team freed him.