Characters in The Little Green God of Agony

… She’d heard the whole story many times before—the important meeting in Omaha, the crash, Andrew Newsome ejected from the burning plane, the broken bones, chipped spine, and dislocated hip, the twenty-four months of unrelieved suffering that had followed …

… It was true that nearly a dozen other doctors on the DVD had claimed themselves at a loss, but Kat believed Dr. Dilawar was the only one with the guts to talk straight.

Jensen had heard it all before, of course, but you always listened closely when the man doing the talking was the sixth-richest man …

… Katherine MacDonald, sitting beside the bed and attaching one of four TENS units to Newsome’s scrawny thigh just below the basketball shorts he now always wore, did not look up.

… Melissa, the housekeeper, looking trim in a white blouse and high-waisted white slacks, came in with a coffee tray. Jensen accepted a cup, along with two packets of artificial sweetener.

But then, not even a week after speaking with Mr. Kiernan, your letter came, along with the video disk. Which I watched with great interest, by the way.”

… His name was Rideout. He was tall and thin, maybe sixty, wearing plain gray pants and a white shirt buttoned all the way to his scrawny neck, which was red with overshaving.

“You are—?” “Tonya Marsden. I cook for Mr. Newsome.” “Very nice to make your acquaintance, ma’am. I need one more thing before we begin. Do you have any sort of club? A baseball bat, perhaps?”