# Dr. Gordon Ashe — The Defiant Agents character guide

> Dr. Gordon Ashe in The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ashe, Dr. Ashe

**First appearance:** 0001-the-defiant-agents

## Snapshot

A scientist of Project Star who reads the betrayal on five glowing disks and starts calculating, before anyone else, how much time the enemy has had.

## Who they are

Ashe sits among colonels and security men, the one mind already leaping from the shock of Camdon's thirty-year deception to the question that matters: when were the tapes snooped? He is neither the harshest voice nor the coldest—he murmurs, protests, reasons—but his instinct to presume the earliest possible breach shows a scientist's discipline under panic. In the opening crisis of the Topaz project, his measured urgency marks him as the man who will have to live with whatever the others decide.

## In the story

### [The Defiant Agents](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_defiant_agents_se/chapters/the-defiant-agents)

Scientist involved in the Topaz project, reveals the manipulation by the Baldies.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_defiant_agents_se/chapters/i)

Argues against the risky acceleration of the program, fearing psychological breakdown of the Apache volunteers. Sent to New York to appeal to Hough.

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