The Sixth Commandment Characters

Lawrence Sanders
This Study Guide consists of approximately 6 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sixth Commandment.

The Sixth Commandment Characters

Lawrence Sanders
This Study Guide consists of approximately 6 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sixth Commandment.
This section contains 201 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Buy The Sixth Commandment Short Guide

Sam is as hard-drinking and hardboiled as they come, even though he is not a traditional detective, but a grant application investigator. Todd's role places him midway between a private eye and an amateur sleuth, enabling him to slip easily from one level of society to another. He stumbles onto a web of murder and cover-up where he was searching only for professional or economic irresponsibility, but once on the trail he will stop at nothing to solve the case, despite its lack of relevance to his job description.

In addition to the main character, Sanders gives us Sam the custodian, who functions as informant, confidant, and occasional mentor to our hero. Like Jamie Olsen in Sanders' later McNally novels, he knows something about everyone and everything in town but is a wise and quiet man of few words.

Julie Thorndecker likewise presages the beautiful but treacherous and...

(read more)

This section contains 201 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Buy The Sixth Commandment Short Guide
Copyrights
Gale
The Sixth Commandment from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.