Dr Peter Hargreaves

THE INVENTOR

Age:   58
Profession:   Former optical physicist; independent inventor
Role in Story:   A stubborn idealist with the brain to change the world—and the money to actually do it.

A brilliant optical physicist who believes truth belongs to everyone.

The scientist

Dr Peter Hargreaves is a former academic optical physicist and the independent inventor of PRISM. Fiercely intelligent and unwilling to accept institutional restrictions on his research, he has pursued his work outside the conventional academic world.

The invention

Working from a private laboratory, Peter has created a device that, within the world of the novel, can reconstruct visual events from the past. For him, PRISM is more than an extraordinary scientific achievement: it challenges the power of those who control information.

The man behind the discovery

Stubborn, restless and sometimes uncompromising, Peter possesses a conviction that truth is a public right. His relationship with his son Ethan is defined by genuine love—and an increasingly difficult difference in how they assess the risks of his invention.

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