Ship Breaker Characters

Enter Our Intrepid HeroNailer is an adolescent ship breaker who works on light crew, crawling in the smallest places of old oil tankers to strip the ships for parts. Nailer's mom died an indetermin...

Back from the DeadWhen Nailer and Pima find Nita half-dead on the ship, they try to cut off her finger, but she stirs, prays, and pleads with them to let her live. This is a girl who clings to life...

A Mystery Wrapped in an EnigmaTool is a half-man, but he seems to have more humanity than many of the actual humans in the bunch. He's a product of genetic engineering, but he's an experiment that...

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Mother BearSadna serves as Nailer's surrogate mother throughout the novel. She's a large woman who has taken care of Nailer since his own mother died and his father turned to drugs and violence. He...

Bad to the BoneLet's work backward, shall we? Nailer kills his own father to survive. And then he's not sure how he feels about it. In the last chapter, Nailer and Sadna talk about what Richard was...

BapiA hard taskmaster, Bapi is the person who runs Nailer's light crew. He's on Nailer to make quota at the beginning of the novel, and he serves as a mouthpiece to give us some context about Naile...