Darrell (book)

## Darrel

**Darrel Monke** is a recurring character in *The Power (book)*. He is the youngest son of Barbara and Bernie Monke and Roxy's half-brother.

## Character Story

#### Nine Years to Go

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After her mother’s murder, Roxy’s father is determined to exact revenge on Primrose, the person who ordered the hit. He tells this to Roxy’s half-brothers.

#### Five Years to Go

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When Roxy leaves to go deal with three girls who raped Ricky, her youngest half-brother Darrell wants to go, too. She takes two others she trusts with her, Danni and Viv. They wait until the three girls leave the pub and makes her attack when they’re outside. She takes one of them out first, leaving her twitching on the floor. The girls know who Roxy is and tell her they didn’t know it was her brother. Darrell then takes a second one out with the barrel of a shotgun. Finally, the last girl, Sam, tells Roxy that Ricky had asked them to do it to him, wanting it to hurt. Sam manages to grab Darrell, but Viv kicks Sam out.

Roxy mentions to Darrell that she’s going to track Newland down, who now lives in Spain. Darrell wants to come, too. Roxy understands that with Ricky out of commission, Darrell understands that she’s the family he’s got left and he wants to align himself with her.

They find Newland at his home and confront him. He starts pleading and crying. They force him to start talking about his arrangement with Primrose, saying that if he cooperates they’ll make it look like a heart attack instead of a suicide (in which case his life insurance will pay out to his family).

Newland then confesses that he never worked for Primrose. He worked for Bernie, and Bernie was the one who ordered him to give the information to Primrose. In other words, Bernie ordered Roxy’s mother Christina to be killed.

Back at home, Roxy and Darrell confront Bernie. Bernie says it wasn’t personal; it was because Christina got two of his guys caught. Roxy tells Bernie that he’s going to retire and tell everyone that he’s handing the business over to her.

#### One Year

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In Moldova, Darrell sets up a meeting for Roxy to work out a deal with some UN soldiers about getting around the current blockade at the border. When Roxy gets to the location, she senses that something is off. She gets knocked out.

When she awakes, she realizes that she’s strapped down and that someone is cutting into her. She tries to fight back, but is unable to do so. Soon, they’ve cut her skein out of her. She’s able to see that Bernie is there and that Darrell is prepped to be implanted with her skein. As they start the operation on Darrell, they don’t notice her as she escapes from her restraints.

#### Can’t Be More Than Seven Months Left

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Allie is concerned that Roxy seems to have disappeared as of 8 weeks ago. Allie is in contact with Darrell, who appears to be concerned (though he’s just pretending of course, since he knows exactly what happened to Roxy). Meanwhile, Tatiana is paranoid and wonders if Roxy’s disappearance is because Roxy has sold them out. Allie doesn’t believe this, but instead notes how unstable and unpredictable Tatiana has become.

Near the Bessapara border, Darrell has now taken over the Glitter business, but he’s having problems with the U.N. blocking their shipments. Darrell’s implanted skein that he took from Roxy is still healing, so he can’t use it yet. The women don’t know that Roxy’s gone yet, but one of the women working at their warehouse reminds him that here he needs a female guardian and if his is missing, then he needs to be appointed a new one. Darrell insists that Roxy’s just taking a vacation.

On the phone with his dad, Darrell and Bernie talk about how they haven’t seen any sign of Roxy in two months. They also talk about their plans to sell skein transplants to others.

#### Here It Comes

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Inside the perimeter, they watch as a solider (Jocelyn) drives up in her Jeep and starts taking photos from the outside the gate. One of the women working there alerts Darrell. As he watches from the inside, he’s tempted to go test out his new powers on her, even though his father has ordered him to keep it secret until it’s time to find buyers for their technology.

Jocelyn is outside taking pictures when she sees a man (Darrell) approach her. Jocelyn agrees to leave, but the man wants to fights. Darrell is eager to really use his new powers, and Jocelyn is eager to see what she can do now that her powers have been cured. Jocelyn thinks she has the situation under control, but then when she goes to make her final blow, she shorts out. Instead, Darrell kicks her in the face and then jolts her until she is no longer moving.

Darrell feels triumphant until he realizes the other women are now eyeing him and coming towards him menacingly. He runs, but they catch up to him. They kill him and take his skein.

Roxy arrives at the factory with a small force, ready to mount an assault, but when she arrives they welcome her in. They show her the skein they took from Darrell.