No Time Like The Past characters

Also known as Max

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A senior St Mary's historian who has secured a place beside Leon after being displaced from her original course through time. Back at the institute, she is eager to resume fieldwork but remains personally exposed to enemies who can attack through history.

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Head of Technical and Max's partner. Having chosen a future with the Max who arrived from another course of events, he now has to support ordinary St Mary's operations while recognising that their enemies may use that relationship against them.

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Director of St Mary's and the person ultimately responsible for approving its expeditions. He tries to restore disciplined research after repeated attacks without isolating Max from the work that defines her.

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A senior historian and Max's dependable field colleague. Peterson provides experience and steadiness when apparently separate assignments begin to look like parts of a larger threat.

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The senior security officer at St Mary's. Guthrie must protect both travelling teams and the institute from an enemy who knows its methods and need not approach from the present.

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A resourceful Security operative whose courage and unconventional methods make him a regular part of St Mary's emergency response.

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St Mary's administrator, coordinating personnel and information while Bairstow and the field teams deal with disruptions spread across different periods.

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A senior scientist whose department examines evidence brought back by historians and helps distinguish an ordinary failed assignment from deliberate temporal interference.

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The institute's doctor, accustomed to treating injuries from periods and circumstances that cannot appear in an outside medical record.

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The renegade traveller responsible for earlier lethal attacks on St Mary's. He is still free when the book begins, and nothing in Max's recent escape has removed his ability to make a future operation personal.