Characters
- Hector McGregor
- Recently retired police officer, also appeared in Quite Ugly One Morning.
- Matt Black
- A successful yet highly cynical stand-up comedian, who's recently sold out by appearing in very bad US sitcoms.
- Ally McQuade
- Genial tradesman with an easily upset stomach.
- Tim "Death's Dark" Vale
- Security expert, who also turns up in a couple of Brookmyre's other novels, Be My Enemy and Country of the Blind.
- David Murdoch
- Reformed ex-con and general bampot, turned self-aware artist.
- Gavin Hutchinson
- Unmemorable owner of the holiday resort, who's sporting a large chip on his shoulder to balance out his equally large ego.
- Simone Hutchinson née Draper
- Gavin's long suffering wife.
- Catherine O'Rourke
- PR consultant and Gavin's bit on the side.
- William Connor
- Would be purveyor of 'professional' mercenary services.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has “never had a chance, poor devil,” you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”
—Margot Asquith (1864–1945)