CHARACTERS

COURTLAND GENTRY: Code name Violator; former CIA paramilitary operations officer; CIA contractor, Poison Apple program

MATTHEW HANLEY: Deputy director for operations, CIA

ZACK HIGHTOWER: Code name Romantic; former CIA paramilitary operations officer; CIA contractor, Poison Apple program

ZOYA ZAKHAROVA: Code name Anthem; former SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service) officer; CIA contractor, Poison Apple program

SUZANNE BREWER: Operations officer, Programs and Plans, CIA

CLARK DRUMMOND: Former NSA computer scientist

RIC ENNIS: Former CIA operations officer; intelligence officer for Shrike International Group

SULTAN AL-HABSI: Code name Tarik; deputy director of the Signals Intelligence Agency, United Arab Emirates; son of the crown prince of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai

SHEIKH RASHID AL-HABSI: Father of Sultan; prime minister of the United Arab Emirates; crown prince of the UAE and ruler of Dubai

RUDOLF SPANGLER: Owner of Shrike International Group; former executive, East German Ministry of State Security (Stasi)

ANNIKA DITTENHOFER (MIRIAM): Shrike International Group employee; former German military intelligence officer

DR. AZRA KAYA: Turkish/German doctor of internal medicine

CHRIS TRAVERS: CIA Special Activities Division (Ground Branch) paramilitary operations officer

KEITH HULETT: Code name Hades; mercenary; former U.S. Army Special Forces

HAZ MIRZA: Former Iranian Quds Force commander; Iranian Quds sleeper agent

KAMRAN IRAVANI: Member of MeK (People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran); anti-regime operative

MAKSIM AKULOV: Russian mafia assassin; former soldier; Spetsnaz; Vega Group; Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

SEMYON PERVAK: Russian mafia assassin

INNA SOROKINA: Russian intelligence asset for Solntsevskaya Bratva; former officer, Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation

ANYA BOLICHOVA: Russian intelligence asset for Solntsevskaya Bratva

RYAN SEDGWICK: U.S. ambassador to Germany