Brett Doyle McAllister
Names: Brett Doyle McAllisterBrettBrett McAllisterUncle Brett
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 5 (2 A RETROSPECTIVE DIGRESSION BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARTH 30 MARCH 2040)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 11Brett is Cat's husband and research partner. He developed the redactive programming for raising latent children to operancy.
- Ch 11Brett is found facedown and burned to death; his back bears seven white ash patches shaped like different multipetaled flowers.
- Ch 15Brett was murdered in a strange death; Marc's overnight disappearance made him a suspect.
- Ch 15An Intendant Associate murdered by apparent draining of life force through symmetrical psychocreative wounds; no suspects, motive or clues exist.
- Ch 15He was married to a member of the Remillard Dynasty, as Teresa Kendall was.
- Ch 16Intendant Associate Brett Doyle McAllister's death involved psychic vampirism and is a disquieting open case.
- Ch 18Brett was Catherine's husband; his murder left seven ashen chakra marks on the body and remains unsolved.
- Ch 18Brett was murdered on a boat at Rye Harbor; his psychocreative lifeforce was extracted, leaving lotus-shaped ash patterns along his spine and head.
- Ch 25Murdered mysteriously; he had opposed his wife Catherine serving on the Concilium, and she acquiesced after his death.
- Ch 37Brett McAllister was murdered with seven white lotus-like chakra burns and a seared body; the burns resembled Victor's earlier killings.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 11Cat and Brett on the trawler
Cat and Brett make love on Doolittle on Cat's birthday, resolving to stay together despite her refusal of the magnateship and expected family opposition.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Murder of Brett
At the yacht club the Hydra, coached by Fury, coerces and sedates Cat, then attacks Brett. At dawn Cat finds his burned body with seven flower-shaped ash marks.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Davy reveals the 'five' clue
At the Christmas crèche, Davy tells Will and Cordelia that Margaret's dying word 'five' indicates a five-mind metaconcert killer, probably also behind Brett's death, and the question is which five Remillards.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Hydra's murders and the investigations
From 2051 Hydra killed Brett McAllister, attacked and apparently killed Margaret Strayhorn, and killed Addie. Investigations of the Remillards, including the mind-probe, found no proof.