Tod Abnarth – Senator; Reuben Kantner’s former boss
Eric Abram – WWII veteran; sold Josh and Hope his home on the point
Jack Ackerman – Hope’s surrogate father
Tobias Anders – Captain, Special Tactics Branch, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C.
Arturo – sidekick of Pastor Green, the Southern Cross (Thompson’s school)
Nils Bogarten – WMD expert, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Misty Buckhannon – Lou Gapes’s sister; Duke Gapes’s aunt
Admiral (Retired) Christy Byford – President Thompson’s National Security Adviser
Tom Cabot – Director, US Secret Service
Josh Cain – The President’s doctor and White House Medical Director
Hope Cain – Josh Cain’s wife
Katya Dedovic – Lawyer at Collins Lovelock Land, Washington D.C.
Karl Dempf – Consultant/mercenary with Triple Z Services; ex-Army Afghan vet
‘The Engineer’ – Jihadi terrorist
Colonel Nelson ‘Tom’ Freeley – Former Marine Corps flyer, Vietnam
Duke Gapes – Ex-Marine
Hank Gapes – Duke Gapes’s father
Louisa ‘Lou’ Gapes – Duke Gapes’s mother
Haight Graham – White House Special Agent in Charge; Lefortz’s successor
Pastor Green – Principal at the Southern Cross
Kit Harper – Thompson’s classmate, the Southern Cross
Hetta Hart – Special Agent, intelligence division, US Secret Service
John Hayden – Head, Presidential Protection Division’s Counter-Assault Team; former US Army, Iraq
Reverend ‘Isaac’ Hayes – Director, Georgetown Presbyterian Mission (a charitable shelter for the homeless), Washington D.C.
Vladimir Ilitch – Moscow-based oligarch
Raoul Jimenez – Sniper, Special Tactics Branch, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington D.C.
General Zan Johansson – Commander, JaySOC (Joint Special Operations Command), US Army; organizational head of the US’s ‘war on terror’
Professor M. M. Kalunin – Russian academician; Ilitch’s father-in-law
Reuben Kantner – Chief of Staff, the White House
Heather Kantner – Reuben’s wife
Dr Elliott Kaufmann – Physicist at the Baltimore Central Institute of Technology; colleague of Schweizer at Harvard
Dr Mo Kerchorian – Progressive psychotherapist; studied with Josh under Ted van Buren at Georgetown
Stanislaw Koori – ‘The world’s greatest psychic’
Charles Land – Senior partner at Collins Lovelock Land, Washington D.C.
Jim Lefortz – Special Agent in Charge, US Secret Service, the White House
Sister Martha – Nun at the Church of St Mary Magdalene
Marty – Security guard, office building on 16th Street
Mikey – Hetta Hart’s brother and cop
Sasha Mikhailovna – Ilitch’s wife
Molly – Josh Cain’s personal assistant
Patriarch Nikolai – the Primate of Moscow; head of the Russian Orthodox Church
Major Cal Offutt – US Army; former colleague of Duke Gapes
Dr Kate Ottoway – Forensic pathologist, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Washington D.C.
Pam – Hope’s mother
Dr Joel Schweizer – Computer scientist; colleague of Kaufmann at Harvard
Joe Seitz – Assistant Press Secretary, the White House
Colonel Dmitri Sergeyev – Military Attaché, Russian Embassy, Washington D.C.
Steve – Paraplegic ex-Army vet, the Settlement, Washington D.C.
Robert Thompson – The President of the United States
Jennifer Thompson – The First Lady
Ted van Buren (TVB) – Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University; Josh’s mentor
Susan van Buren – Professor of archaeology; TVB’s wife
Vasiliy – Sergeyev’s sidekick
Matthew Voss – Ex-Marine
DJ Wharton – Special Agent, US Federal Bureau of Investigation
Cody Wyatt – Small-time criminal, Blacksoil, West Virginia; former friend of Duke Gapes