THE KING ATLASBetaA WORLD BETWEEN STORIESSingle-book characters / Named cast
6 named character entries recorded in The Fifth Quarter. Open a snippet for the book’s wording.
These entries belong to this story; they do not establish matches to characters in other books. Read about this work and its recorded connections.
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… I mostly thought about Barney, and that wasn’t strictly a matter of choice. I thought about how he looked in that small boat when I found him, staring up at me and making meaningless cawing noises. He’d been adrift for two days and looked like a boiled lobster. There was …
Possible aliases: Cappy
“We didn’t want to split hot money—too tempting. But we didn’t want to leave all the swag in one pair of hands, either. Cappy MacFarland was the perfect solution.”
… That was when the door rammed open and Jagger charged through, ghostly and visible in a mantle of white snow, tall and loose and gangling. I let him have it and the bullet punched a hole through the side of his head.
Keenan asked. “Jerry Tarkanian,” I said. “Move and I’ll put a hole in you big enough to watch television through.”
Keenan: “Sarge! You’re late! Come on in and have a drink.” Sarge: “Scotch.”
… I knew about Sarge; material on him hadn’t been hard to spade up. He’d been a Green Beret in Vietnam, and no one even bothered with his real name anymore; he was just the Sarge, big and murderous and tough.