I Am the Messenger Characters

One of the things we love about Ed is he comes right out with it. He's never afraid to tell us exactly who he is or expose his faults to us, even when they're pretty ugly. Take his first intro to u...

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Boy meets girl; boy falls madly in love with girl; girl doesn't love boy. That pretty much sums up Audrey, the blonde bombshell that Ed wants… but can't h...

You gotta love this argumentative, opinionated guy who claims he's got more money than he knows what to do with but still drives an old, beat up Falcon. If the bank robbery is any indication, then...

It's hard to describe Ritchie without making him sound a little pathetic. As Ed says, Ritchie is:[…] always quiet, sporting his laughable tattoo on his right arm. He sips on his longneck beer fro...

Moms kiss our boo-boos and tell us we're the smartest, prettiest kid on the playground… or they're supposed to anyway. Bev Kennedy clearly didn't get the memo, though. She's not interested in bab...

Here's what we know about the Doorman: he's a seventeen-year-old, stinky Rottweiler-German shepherd who loves coffee. This unlikely companion is Ed's one and only housemate and partner in crime. Ac...

These balaclava-clad, pie-eating hit men aren't so much dangerous as they are funny. Daryl and Keith might be hired to scare the living daylights out of Ed, but they really provide the comic relief...

As soon as Ed gets the first card in the mail, he wonders who sent it to him. He rules out his friends, then his mom, and even his brother Tommy, but the question remains: Who would go to all this...

If you think about it, the people Ed helps—everyone from the sweeties like Milla, Sophie, and Bernie Price, to the more complicated folks like the woman on Edgar Street and the Rose brothers—ar...