Jorj X. McKie
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Jorj X. McKie is the leading saboteur extraordinary in the Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab), an organization found in two science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, as well as two earlier short stories. He is described as a squat and ugly man of Pacific Islander ancestry, with green eyes and a shock of red hair. The Gowachin say they feel their bones age in his presence, because he bears a remarkable resemblance to racial memories of their nearly-divine Lawgiver.
A born troublemaker, Jorj McKie finds BuSab to be a natural outlet for his tendencies. But McKie's success as a BuSab agent is really the result of a formidable intelligence and an exquisite sensitivity to the traditions of other races combined with the ability to adapt to any circumstances. Sent by the agency to Dosadi as their "best", he was like an infant in swaddling clothes in comparison to a people honed by fifteen generations of violence. However, in less than a single week Keila Jedrik appraised him as "more Dosadi than Dosadi."
Despite his feelings of genuine love for the Caleban Fannie Mae (a love which is fully returned), McKie finds it difficult to form long-term attachments to human women; he has been married on no fewer than fifty occasions by the time of the Dosadi affair. Nevertheless, he finds in Keila Jedrik a companion who becomes far more than a soul mate.
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- Herbert, Frank. A Matter of Traces (1958) (short story) Fantastic Universe, 1958
- Herbert, Frank. The Tactful Saboteur (short story) Galaxy, 1964
- Herbert, Frank. Whipping Star (novel) Galaxy, 1969
- Herbert, Frank. The Dosadi Experiment (novel) Berkeley, 1977.
