Sandy, Rod
Appeared in Promises in Death (Spring 2060)
Personal Information[]
- Description: A “slick character” with an expensive haircut styled so the dark waves curved around a smooth, even-featured face[1]
- Age at TOD: Early 30s
- Hair: Dark
- Address: New York, NY
- Relationships: Unnamed parents, stepparents, and siblings
- Occupation: Personal assistant to Alex Ricker
Description[]
- His tone was very cool, very authoritative, faintly European and, in Eve Dallas’s opinion, just a little prissy.[2]
History[]
- Rod was tenth in his graduating class, Alex was first; Alex and Rod were co-captains on the football (soccer) team, Alex was MVP; Rod was vice president of their class, Alex was president.[3]
- The football team representing the university that Alex and Rod attended played against, and had a deep-seated rivalry with, the team representing the university where Cleo Grady was a visiting student (the University of Stuttgart).[4]
- Alex did not remember her, specifically, but said she looked like someone he saw around with Rod. Rod wouldn’t tell Alex about her so he started calling her Miss Mystery.[5]
- The football team representing the university that Alex and Rod attended played against, and had a deep-seated rivalry with, the team representing the university where Cleo Grady was a visiting student (the University of Stuttgart).[4]
Family History[]
- His parents divorced and remarried – twice each; he had one sibling and one half sibling. According to Alex, Rod was not close with his family.[6]
Criminal Activity[]
- He had a buried bank account in Zurich worth over twelve million dollars; the ‘link Rod used to check his Zurich account was registered to Varied Interests.[7] Other transmissions were traced the day before Coltraine was murdered, the day of, and the day after.[8]
- Cleo recruited Rod to pass data on Alex to Max Ricker.[9]
Homicide Information[]
- TOD: 1:15 a.m. (0115)
- His body was discovered at 509 Pearl Street in a three-level, multi-tenant, vacant building used by funky-junkies.[10]
- He’d been stripped, leaving the small hole and dribble of heart blood on his naked chest exposed; one blow to the heart, thin blade (probably a stiletto).[11]
- He was murdered by Cleo Grady.[12]
Interesting Facts[]
- He told Dallas that he and Alex stayed in the evening Amaryllis Coltraine was murdered; this was contradicted by Alex’s statement that he [Alex] went out.[13]
- After ANN released the bulletin (at 10:53am) on the murder of Coltraine, Rod was seen leaving Alex’s building with a briefcase at 11:26am and return at 12:08pm. It was believed that he carried out any potentially incriminating evidence.[14]
- When Dallas and Baxter arrived to speak with Alex and Rod, Rod had already disappeared and was on the run.[15] Carmine Luca told them that Rod had questioned him after Alex’s meeting with Roarke. Alex then admitted that Rod recommended that he go out alone the night Amaryllis was murdered.[16]
References[]
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 96-97
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 96
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 239
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 302
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 317
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 243
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 244-245
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 245
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 333
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 263, 266-267
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 268
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 332-338
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 98-99, 130
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 157
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 229-230
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 231-233
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 234
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 233-234