Retired Baltimore tugboat captain
Hattie
“Easy now. Nobody runs aground on my watch.”
Hattie spent her working life captaining tugboats in Baltimore harbour. Gravel-voiced, unhurried and dryly funny, she has no patience for panic and a knack for calming a jittery room. She hands out nautical nicknames, logs every sighting and plots where everyone has been like ships on a chart, keeping things steady and on course. She trusts people who admit what they don't know.