CAST OF CHARACTERS

THE AMERICANS

Meredith Morris-Dale—Senior operations officer in CIA’s Counterproliferation (CPT) Division; ex-wife of John Dale.

Grace Morris-Dale —Daughter of John and Meredith; midshipman at the US Naval Academy.

John Dale—Indefinitely suspended CIA case officer living in rural Washington State.

Ed Rance—Department head of CIA’s CPT Division based in Langley, Virginia.

Jeff Dorsey—Director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service.

Rick Desmond—Junior CIA analyst in the CPT Division; Meredith’s deputy.

Steve Chadwick—CIA Istanbul chief of station; Meredith’s occasional boyfriend.

THE RUSSIANS

Yuri Kuznetsov—Russian SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service) (Directorate PR) officer based in Damascus.

Maria Borbova—Russian SVR (Directorate S) officer based in London; internally in SVR, her code name is Zoloto.

Genevieve Lund—Maria Borbova’s alias when working undercover.

Colonel Vladimir Niskorov—Russian SVR (Directorate PR) commander at SVR HQ Yasenevo.

Vasily—Russian Spetsnaz operative in SVR’s Aslan (Alpha) elite foreign operations team.

Leo—Russian Spetsnaz operative in SVR’s Aslan (Alpha) elite foreign operations team.

Oleg—Russian Spetsnaz operative in SVR’s Aslan (Alpha) elite foreign operations team.

Putov—Yuri Kuznetsov’s number two SVR officer in Damascus.

Nikita—Russian scientist shadowing Zana Rahimi at the Tabriz enrichment facility.

THE IRANIANS

Zana Rahimi (Cerberus)—Nuclear physicist working in the Iranian centrifuge arrays; Cerberus is his CIA code name.

Nadia Rahimi—Wife of Zana Rahimi living in Tehran.

Sahar Rahimi—Daughter of Zana and Nadia; student at McGill University in Montreal.

Kasem Kahlidi—Quds lieutenant colonel based in Lebanon; a former adjutant to the late General Soleimani, former head of Quds Force.

Naser Maloof—Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) colonel based in Tehran; in charge of Iranian counterintelligence.

Javad Mirzadeh—Zana’s supervisor at the Tabriz enrichment facility; an active-duty Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) major.

Kasra—Girlfriend of Kasem Kahlidi, living in Tehran.

Major General Qasem Soleimani—Commanding general of the Quds Force killed by an American drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.

Brigadier General Hossein Salami—Commanding general of the IRGC.