Kompromat

Ronald C. Craig: Republican Presidential candidate and later US President

Brandon Matlock: US President (outgoing)

Caroline Mann: Democratic Presidential candidate

Rosie Craig: Ronald Craig’s daughter

Malvina Craig: Ronald Craig’s wife

Dirk Goddard: Attorney General

Bert Rumbold: Ronald Craig’s Campaign Director

Bud Hollingsworth: Director of the CIA

Wilbur Brown: Director of the FBI

John Hulley: CIA boffin

Jo Silcock: Attorney General

General Ian Wright: National Security Adviser

Julius Lomax: Former US Congressman

Sandra Lomax: Wife of of Julius, aide to Caroline Mann

Gina Paulson: Vixen TV

Eric Longhurst: CBS

Bill Whitelaw: Congressman

Larry Kinder: Senator

Pedro Gonzales: Federal Marshal in Florida

Jimmy Redmond: Ditto

Georgiy Reznikov: Russian Ambassador in Washington

Jack Varese: Movie star

Terry Caruthers: Co-pilot of Varese’s plane

Igor Popov: Russian President

Fyodor Stephanov: FSB St Petersburg

Yuri Yasonov: Chief aide to Russian President

Galina Aslanova: Head of Special Projects, FSB, Moscow

Pavel Golov: Galina’s boss, Director at FSB, Moscow

Lyudmila Markova: FSB, Moscow

Christine Amadore: CNN, Moscow

SWAT team

Ling and Kong: Two Chinese agents in St Petersburg

Sir Andrew Boles: UK Ambassador in Moscow

Martha Goodchild, Boles’s successor as UK Ambassador in Moscow

Jim Connally: Embassy driver in Moscow

Sergei: Driver of car in Siberia

Ivan: Head Ranger in Siberia

Two Russian ladies of the night

Helga Brun: Chancellor

Ursula Hauptman: Chancellor’s main aide

Thomas Hartkopf: State Secretary at German Ministry of the Interior

Dr Otto Friedrich: German Minister of the Interior

Liu Wang-Ji: President

Jang Ling-Go: Director of Forestry and Wildlife, Heliongjiang Province

Shao Wei-Lu (female): His Assistant

Zhang Fu-Sheng: Minister of State Security (MSS)

Li Xiao-Tong: MSS Counter-Intelligence

Professor Wong: Archaeologist (in Xian)

Professor Gung Ho-Min: in Khabarovsk Hospital

Wang Tao-Yu: Chinese Premier

Deng Biao-Su: MSS analyst

Edward Barnard: MP, Secretary of State for the Environment (DEFRA) and later Chairman of the Leave Campaign, still later Chancellor of the Exchequer

Joyce Griffith: Barnard’s P/A at DEFRA

Jeremy Hartley: MP, Prime Minister at start of book

Mabel Killick: MP, Home Secretary, Prime Minister at end of book

Melissa Barnard: Edward Barnard’s wife

Dame Jane Porter: Head of MI5

Mark Cooper: Head of MI6

James Armitage: Deputy Head of MI6

Shirley Wilson: Head of MI6 China desk

Roger Wales: Head of MI6 Russia Desk

Giles Mortimer: Mrs Killick’s joint-chief aide

Holly Percy: Mrs Killick’s other joint-chief aide

Tom Milbourne: MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer at beginning of book

Sir Oliver Holmes: Metropolitan Police Commissioner

Cornelia Gosford: Deputy Police Commissioner

Harriet Marshall: Director of the Leave Campaign

Christine Meadows: Harriet Marshall’s partner

Harry Stokes: MP, former Mayor of London, later Foreign Secretary

Owen Griffiths: Stokes’ aide

Joshan Gupta: Employee of MI5

Jill Hepworth: Employee of MI6

Lillian Peters: Employee of FCO

Jack Kellaway: MP, former Minister for Social Affairs