The cell's angriest fighter, gunned down on the steps of the burning house in Murtry's strike — dead.
Zadie, the cell's hottest head after Coop's execution, dies in Adolphus Murtry's coordinated strike on the settlers' house. When RCE's fire sets the building ablaze, she rushes out the shattered door with a rifle in her hands and is shot to a splatter of blood, collapsing to twitch and die at the foot of the steps. Holden throws himself over her body under crossfire and drags her clear of the flames, but she is already gone.
Basia Merton, arriving with Amos, names her body: 'Zadie. They killed her.' She leaves behind her wife Amanda and their son, still fighting an eye infection back in First Landing.
A wiry, combative Belter woman marked by old bar-fight scars; in her last moments, a rifle in her hands, cut down on the steps of the burning house.
Cell member; the volatile fighter whose death opens the massacre of the settler resistance.