Brady Hartsfield

Brady Hartsfield is the man who killed several people and injured more when he ran a car into a crowd of people waiting for a job fair to open. He later tried to detonate a bomb during a sold out pop concert but was stopped by Holly, Jerome, and Hodges. His doctors describe him as being in a persistent vegetative state after Holly clobbered him in the head with Hodges’ Happy Slapper, a sock loaded with ball bearings.

Brady is the major villain or antagonist of the novel. Even though he is believed to be semi-catatonic, Brady’s mind has actually returned to the same level of function or perhaps even higher function than he had before his brain injury. His doctor gave Brady experimental drugs believed to increase brain activity but Brady does not believe these drugs had anything to do with his recovery. He believes...