The characters / Recurring character
Deke Bradford
Deke Bradford is recorded in 2 distinct storys.
The Dark Half identifies Deke Bradford as the Castle Rock Public Works head; Needful Things refers to the same work supervisor.
Stories and supporting passages
Needful Things
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
… almost an hour and a half early, actually, but what the hell, Deke Bradford hadn’t been around), and had waded right in. And come seven o’clock, guess what? No Bobby Dugas! Golly-gosh-wow! Come eight and nine and nine-thirty, guess further what? More of the same, by God! At twenty to ten, Henry Beaufort, bartender and owner of The Mellow Tiger, had invited Hugh to put an egg in his shoe and beat it, to make like a tree and leave, …
The Dark Half identifies Deke Bradford as the Castle Rock Public Works head; Needful Things refers to the same work supervisor.
The Dark Half
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
During those two weeks he and Dave Phillips and Deke Bradford, who was the head of the town Public Works Department, had put in ten-hour days, as they did each spring, clearing blocked culverts, re-sodding places where the spring runoff had torn the old ground-cover away, righting tombstones and monuments which had been toppled by ground-heaves.
The Dark Half identifies Deke Bradford as the Castle Rock Public Works head; Needful Things refers to the same work supervisor.