Bob Redell is introduced in Chapter 13, a “balding man in his late forties, maybe early fifties” (13.035)—in a maximum-security prison unit in New Zealand for criminal negligence that killed seven people (13.027).

Stratt addresses him as “Dr. Robert Redell” but he insists on “Bob”. Throughout this chapter and the next the narrator refers to him as just “Redell”. He appears again (where he is referred to by the narrator as ”Bob Redell”) in Chapters 16 and 18.

During his initial meeting with Grace and Stratt, Redell says the deaths were an accident but admits to having a gambling problem and embezzling millions of dollars.

When introduced in Chapter 16, he is referred to as “a gambling-addicted swindler” and later as ”Embezzler Bob”.

He is released because he has an idea for how to grow more Astrophage.

Bob Redell’s direct speech consists of 47 quoted passages, 1,047 tokens, and 389 unique words.

He is the only character to say the words ‘victims’, ‘differential’, ‘equilibrium’, ‘permanently’, ‘corrupt’, ‘reactors’, ‘payoffs’, ‘microgram’, ‘pie’, ‘reflector’, ‘anodize’, ‘Monaco’, ‘replenish’, ‘debt’, ‘anonymously’, ‘Zealanders’, ‘officials’, ‘guilty’, ‘continuous’, ‘godlike’, ‘ceramics’, ‘bribes’, ‘sector’, ‘poverty’, ‘graft’, ‘embezzle’, ‘pinhole’, ‘farce’, ‘emailed’, ‘workers’, ‘funded’, ‘virtual’, ‘owned’, or ‘goddamned’ and the only person other than the narrator to use the words ‘drill’, ‘biggest’, ‘medium’, ‘starkly’, ‘sickness’, ‘Bob’, ‘magnet’, ‘activated’, ‘drum’, ‘kick’, ‘brick’, ‘insulator’, ‘foil’, ‘pumping’, ‘orient’, ‘fired’, ‘exchange’, ‘successful’, ‘angled’, ‘foam’, ‘steam’, ‘paint’, ‘edges’, ‘intense’, ‘migration’, ‘gap’, ‘admit’, or ‘sitting’.