Arnold Pakkala
Names: Arnold PakkalaArnieArnold
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 23 (1)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 23Pakkala is Kieran's white-haired executive assistant, a battle-trained Chicago driver who scouts minds and discharges orgasmically when exerting his power.
- Ch 33Arnold is Kieran's executive assistant, a colorless-eyed man who also communicates mentally with Kieran.
- Ch 49Arnold's love was strong enough to overcome Kieran's posthypnotic suggestion to forget; the other victims did not remember.
- Ch 61Pakkala is O'Connor's staff member who answers the intercom and is sent away with the staff.
- Ch 68Kier's executive assistant, who tries and fails to hold back his grief when he senses Presteigne's news.
Connections
- ally ofKieran O'Connorexecutive assistant
- member ofKieran O'Connorexecutive assistant
- related toKieran O'Connorexecutive assistant
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 23Race across Manhattan
Kieran's team uses mental coercion to clear traffic and reach Lincoln Center from Kennedy while Kieran sleeps.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Nomination offer to Baumgartner
At Kieran's home, Cassidy lays out the party's strategy and offers General Baumgartner the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, amid predictions of an oil crisis and anti-metapsychic stance.
- Book 1 · Ch 68Kieran's terminal diagnosis
Presteigne tells Kieran that tests show his cancer has metastasized. Kieran refuses hospital care, plans to resist the disease through redaction, and orders that Shannon be told it was a false alarm.