# Four-Day Planet — Character guide

> Key figures in Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper.

- [Bish Ware](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/bish_ware.md): Bish Ware plays the town drunk for years, but his cover hides a special agent's instincts and a marksman's hand steady enough to shoot a knife from a man's grip. He moves through Port Sandor's factions with a private age
- [Glenn Murell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/glenn_murell.md): Glenn Murell comes to Fenris researching a book, but his sharp questions and the 8.5 mm automatic bulging under his jacket suggest he expects trouble. He trades barbs with the local newsman, probing the planet's decline 
- [Tom Kivelson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/tom_kivelson.md): Tom Kivelson belongs to one of Fenris's most prominent hunting families, which makes him a target when Steve Ravick stages a riot to crush the opposition. He escapes the meeting hall with his father and a handful of Jave
- [Steve Ravick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/steve_ravick.md): Steve Ravick runs the Hunters' Cooperative as a private fiefdom, skimming the difference on ammunition and dictating the price of the planet's only export. When the hunters resist his latest cut, he answers with a staged
- [Oscar Fujisawa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/oscar_fujisawa.md): Oscar Fujisawa commands the Pequod and the respect of the hunting fleet, and when the Coop turns violent he is the one shouting 'All hands on deck' to organize the resistance. He argues against burning Hunters' Hall—'tha
- [Joe Kivelson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/joe_kivelson.md): Joe Kivelson captains the Javelin and speaks for the hunters who refuse Ravick's price cut, even when it means eating beans instead of selling wax. He is the planet's worst pistol shot and the first to doubt Bish Ware, b
- [Walt Boyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/walt_boyd.md): Walt Boyd wears two hats in Port Sandor: working pilot and the Times' man in the field, which puts him aboard the doomed Javelin when its engines blow and strands the crew on Fenris' unmapped antarctic coast. He's the on
- [Leo Belsher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/leo_belsher.md): Leo Belsher moves through Fenris' power structure as the kind of lawyer who makes corruption look like governance, tied closely enough to Ravick and Mayor Hallstock that Walt's father wishes the coming reckoning might sw
- [Abe Clifford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/abe_clifford.md): Abe Clifford is the kind of old hand who states flatly that the radio, locator receiver, and navigational gear are all smashed, then leads a search party into the snow anyway. He and Ramón Llewellyn split the survivors t
- [Morton Hallstock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/morton_hallstock.md): Mayor Morton Hallstock runs Port Sandor with a politician's instinct for self-preservation, mobilizing his uniformed police to shield Ravick's interests whenever the Cooperative's anger threatens to boil over. When Walt 
- [Al Devis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/al_devis.md): A shady character involved in the criminal underworld.
- [Ramón Llewellyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/ramon_llewellyn.md): A local contact and guide for the reporters.
- [Cesário Vieira](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/cesario_vieira.md): A minor official or local with knowledge of the planet.
- [Abdullah Monnahan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/abdullah_monnahan.md): A member of the community, possibly a worker or pilot.
- [Julio Kubanoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/julio_kubanoff.md): A local pilot or mechanic who helps the reporters.
- [Ralph Boyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/four_day_planet_se/characters/ralph_boyd.md): Walt Boyd's brother, a pilot.

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