The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters BrothersPatrick Dewitt
Characters in The Sisters Brothers
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Eli Sisters
The book's narrator, a contemplative, sentimental hired killer who grows weary of the work and follows his older brother out of habit.
Charlie Sisters
Eli's older brother, an impulsive, aggressive and hard-drinking assassin who leads the pair.
Antagonists
The Commodore (The Sisters Brothers)
The wealthy, powerful employer who sends the brothers to California to kill Warm.
Supporting characters
Hermann Kermit Warm
A prospector accused of theft, who has devised a chemical formula that makes gold glow in a river.
Morris (The Sisters Brothers)
An associate of the Commodore who becomes Warm's partner in the gold-finding scheme.