The Demolished Man

Corporate murderer racing to suppress evidence; survives three assassination attempts; attempts to use Barbara and Mary as weapons against Powell; repeatedly stopped by an inexplicable compulsion not to kill.

Esper 1st class detective driving the D'Courtney murder investigation; telepathically peeps Barbara's traumatic memory to reconstruct the crime; orchestrates the Spaceland sweep; suffers emotional entanglement with Barbara.

Esper M.D. recruited by Reich as telepathic intelligence officer; screens Reich from other peepers and conducts reconnaissance.

Powell's Esper assistant and close friend; exposes Powell's unconscious love for Barbara; later paralyzed by Reich with the scrambler inside Powell's home.

Socialite hostess of the party; manipulated by Reich; holds the secret of D'Courtney's location; later abandoned and used as a decoy by Reich.

Young Esper who finds Reich collapsed in Bomb Inlet and accompanies him to Crabbe's office as a telepathic truth-detector.

Esper attorney representing Reich; present at interrogation to enforce consent boundaries and block Powell's telepathic examination.

Police Inspector 2; plays the villain role in the Good Cop/Bad Cop staging; coordinates the Rough and Smooth surveillance operation.

Reich's Code Chief; transmits the secret merger proposal to D'Courtney and is given a week's vacation as a reward.

Monarch's Recreation Director and head of its espionage division; declines to break the Esper Pledge but provides information to Reich.

De-guilded Esper and antique dealer who provided Reich's gun; inadvertently discovers Barbara's location through Snim's gossip; deceived by Powell into confirming the weapon.

President of the Esper Guild Council who chairs the emergency meeting and expresses reluctance but ultimately grants Powell's Mass Cathexis request.

Sole witness to her father's murder; trapped in Hysterical Recall catatonia; undergoing Déjà Éprouvé regression therapy; regressed to infant/child state while harboring subconscious murder memory Powell is extracting.

Fortune-teller and landlady harboring Barbara as a trance performer; telepathically interrogated by Powell; later confronted violently by Reich as a suspected booby-trap conspirator.

Small-time hustler whose gossip about Chooka's 'yellow-headed girl' inadvertently reveals Barbara's location to Jerry Church.

Kingston Hospital doctor treating Barbara's catatonia with the Déjà Éprouvé Series; explains the regression therapy to Powell and Mary.

Police commissioner obstructing Powell's prosecution; accidentally incapacitated by the Rhodopsin Ionizer during the case presentation; later kicked by Powell in his rage.

Code analyst assisting Powell's case presentation to Mose; telepathically peered by Powell to uncover a data gap in the motive documentation.

Reich's operative who nurses him after his collapse; present during his initial reality-dissolution episode.

Esper council member who questions whether Powell is exaggerating Reich's danger and suggests attacking Reich at a later crossroad.