MAIN CHARACTERS

 

The British:

Peter Faye, MI6 agent and Consular Services officer

Bridget Potter, Consular Services officer

Bernie Dixon, Legation documents officer

Ewan Butler, SOE officer and press attaché

Joanna Dunn, SOE officer and assistant to Butler

Michael Tennant, SOE officer and press attaché

Sir Victor Mallet, Chief of the British Legation

Anthony Blunt, MI5 officer

Major Keith Linwood, MI6 officer

Jane Archer, Soviet counterintelligence expert

Dorothy Furse, SOE Head of Personnel in London

Mary Butler, Ewan’s wife

 

The Swedes:

Anders Berger, journalist, Stockholms-Tidningen newspaper

Britta, Anders’ wife, secretary at the Enskilda Bank

Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish Red Cross executive

Gustav Lundquist, Stockholms-Tidningen newspaper

Sabrina, Bernie’s wife

Aksell, Sabrina’s father and music composer

Stefan, photographer, Stockholms-Tidningen newspaper

Vincent Ansell, Swedish trade officer at the British Legation

Magnus, Sabrina’s brother and jeweller

Rolf Lagerman, Britta’s brother, prisoner in Germany

Ahlman, senior accountant at the Enskilda bank

Ekstrom, freight manager at the Bromma airfield

Akerson, art dealer and businessman

Felix Kersten, physical therapist to Himmler

Colonel Gottfrid Björck, Swedish military man

 

The Germans & Austrians:

Dr Karl-Heinz Kramer, Abwehr spy and press officer

Eva Kramer, Karl-Heinz’s wife

Kriminaldirektor Golcher, Abwehr station head

Hanne, Austrian Jew and cleaning woman

Nadja, secretary at the German press office

Elsa Ansell, Vincent Ansell’s Austrian wife

SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg, head of SD Ausland

Der Grosse’ Federmann, German nightclub owner

Wilhelma, nanny to young Heidi in the Kramer household

Oberleutnant Kemper, informant to Golcher

Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller

Abwehr chief and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris

Obergefreiter Hoffmann, German Wehrmacht officer

Hauptman Schultz, Gestapo man

Kriminalinspektor Bauer, Gestapo officer in Stockholm

SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, head of the RSHA

Hans and Fritz, two young German soldiers

 

The Soviets:

Soviet Ambassador Alexandra Kollontai

Major Vladimir Petrov, NKVD officer

Evdokia Petrov, NKVD officer and wife to Vladimir

Sasha, NKVD hitman

 

The Others:

Wanda Hjort, Norwegian social worker

Dr Bjorn Heger, Norwegian medical doctor

Colonel Reino Hallamaa, head of Finnish Radio Intelligence

Wilho Tikander, American OSS station chief in Stockholm

Mads, Finnish adjutant to Colonel Hallamaa

Hendrik, Finnish adjutant to Colonel Hallamaa

Colonel Saarson, Estonian military attaché

General Makoto Onodera, Japanese intelligence officer

Trygve Bratteli, prisoner, later became PM of Norway

GRU, the Soviet military foreign-intelligence service

NKVD, the Soviet secret police service

RTK, the Finnish Intelligence service

Säpo, the Swedish Security service