I just finished reading TC's excellent new book, Red Rabbit, and decided to post a character description list I wrote as I was reading the book. I hope it is of some use to anyone who starts reading the book.
It's organized by country in order of appearance (first mentioned, first on the list), and the characters in every country are also organized by order appearance.
I know there are many mistakes and inaccuracies or incomplete information. Please help me correct this list, while we all wait for Mr. Clancy to publish his next book.
Semper fi!!
Sir John Patrick (Jack) Ryan: Historian. Marine officer. CIA intelligence officer. British Knight.
Dr. Carolyn (Cathy) Ryan: Jack's wife. M.D., FACS.
Jack Ryan Jr: Jack Ryan's 5-month old son.
Sally Ryan: Jack Ryan's 4 1/2 year-old daughter
Margaret Van der Beek: Little Jack's nanny. Young redhead from South Africa.
Dan Murray: FBI Legal Attaché, U.S. Embassy in London.
Liz Murray: Dan's wife
Sir Basil "Bas" Charleston: SIS Director
Simon Harding: Russian working group. Oxford graduate, doctorate in
Russian Literature. Did the personal evaluation on Yuriy
Andropov
Edward Beaverton: SIS Driver. Former Parachute Regiment.
Bert Canderton: Century House gate guard. Former Regimental Sergeant Major of the
Royal Green Jackets.
Randy Silvestri: CIA Chief of Station, London.
Georgiy Markov: Russian defector murdered by Colonel Strokov
Alan Kingshot: Most senior SIS field agent.
Patrick "Tiny" Nolan: Chief Superintendent of the Police Force of the Metropolis (London
Constabulary). Huge chap.
Owen Williams: His burned remains would be used for operation BEATRIX.
Nick Thompson: Former Scotland Yard (Metropolitan Police) Homicide Detective.
Emma Thompson: Former Scotland Yard (Metropolitan Police) Administrative employee.
Sir George Hendley: British government consultant. Sir Basil's friend for more than 30 years.
Russian History
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) German economist, philosopher, and revolutionist. With the aid of
Friedrich Engels he produced much of the theory of modern Socialism
and Communism. Marx's father, Heinrich, was a Jewish lawyer who had
converted his family to Christianity partly in order to preserve his job in
the Prussian state.
Vladimir Ilich Lenin Founder of the Russian Communist party.
Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. First head of State of USSR.
Josef Vissarionovich Stalin Soviet leader after the death of Lenin, from 1929 to 1953.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev First secretary of the Soviet Communist party from 1953 to 1964.
Soviet leader from 1958 to1964.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev General Secretary of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.
Major Oleg Ivanovich Zaitzev: KGB communications expert at the Centre.
Ed Foley: CIA Chief of Station, Moscow.
Mary Pat Foley: CIA. Granddaughter of a Russian citizen (Kaminsky).
Eddie Foley: 4 1/2 years old, Ed and Mary Pat's son
Mike Barnes: Career FSO, Consular Officer, US Embassy, Moscow.
Nigel Haydock: SIS. Communications (Signals) Specialist, British Embassy, Moscow.
Cover: Commercial Attaché to Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy.
Penny Haydock: SIS, Ed and Mary Pat's British neighbors
Yuriy Vladimirovich Andropov: KGB Chairman (Committee for State Security)
CARDINAL: Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, CIA's agent in the Kremlin. Personal
assistant to Dmitriy Fedorovich Ustinov.
Marshall Dmitriy Fedorovich Ustinov: GRU (Soviet Defense) Minister
Mikhail Suslov: Secretary for Ideology of the Defense Council (Soviet Orborony).
Mikhail Yevgeniyevich Alexandrov: Man behind Suslov. Suslov's successor. Candidate to General Secretary.
Aleksey Nikolai Rozhdestvenskiy: Senior Colonel in the First Chief (Foreign) Directorate.
Pavel Yevgeniyevich Kuritsyn: Pravda (Russian Publication) Reporter.
Probably a KGB Second Chief Directorate agent.
Ernest ("Ernie") Fuller: US Ambassador, Moscow
Brigadier General George Dalton: Defense Attaché, US Embassy, Moscow
Anthony ("Tony") Prince: New York Times correspondant, Moscow
Svetlana Zaitzev: Zaitzev's daughter.
Irina Bogdanova Zaitzev: Zaiitzev's wife
Major Stefan Yevgeniyevich Ivanov: Senior Communications officer. Zaitzev doesn't like him.
Major Nikolai ("Kolya")
Konstantinovich Dobrik: Newly promoted major who worked the night shift on Zaitzev's desk.
Colonel Anatoliy Gregorovich Fokin: KGB First Chief (Political ) Directorate. Washington desk.
Mike Russell: Head of Communications, U.S.A. Embassy, Moscow. NSA Agent.
Former Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Security Agency (ASA).
Ron Fielding: Senior Consular Officer. Tony Prince thinks he's the CIA Station Chief.
Gregoriy Vasilyevich: Secretary of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
Tommy Cox: Diplomatic courier, U.S. embassy, Moscow.
Former army warrant/officer/helicopter pilot.
Dom Corso: CIA field agent in Moscow.
Andrey Vasili'yevich: Zaitzev's boss.
Paul Matthews: Reporter
Sir John Kenny: British Ambassador, Moscow.
Rome
Karol Josef Wojtyla: Pope John Paul II
Colonel Ruslan Borissovich Goderenko: Station Rome KGB Rezident.
Rick Nolfi: CIA Chief of Station, Rome.
Tom Sharp: SIS Chief of Station, Rome.
Cover: Deputy Chief of Mission, British Embassy, Rome.
Annie Sharp: Tom Sharp's wife.
Mick King: SIS agent.
John Sparrow: SIS agent.
Ray Stones: SIS agent.
U.S.A.
Joe Muller: Cathy Ryan's father
Admiral James (Jim) Greer: CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence (DDI)
Robert (Bob) Ritter: CIA Deputy Director of Operations (DDO). Greer's rival
Judge Arthur Moore: Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). Greer's friend
Colonel Vanya Vorissovich Kaminsky: Mary Pat Foley (Kaminsky)'s Grandfather. Equerry to the House of
Romanov. Minor nobleman in the Imperial horse Guards, Russian Czars
Emil Jacobs: FBI Director
Mike Bostock: Works at CIA Headquarters
John Tyler: Assistant Special Agent in charge of FBI's Boston Field division
Peter "Max" Mayfair: Assistant U.S. Attorney. Harvard Law School graduate
Giovanni Cardinal Sabatino: Papal Nuncio, U.S.A.
Mark Radner: Part time CIA agent. Russian scholar from Dartmouth. Part of the
team that debriefed Zaitzev.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Ilya Fedorovich Bubovoy: Sofia Rezident
Colonel Boris Strokov: Bulgarian. Runs DS (Dirzhavna Sugurnost) operations in Turkey.
Senior intelligence officer who has specialized in assassinations operations.
Budapest, Hungary
Andreas Morrisay: AVH (Allavedelmi Hatosag, Hungarian State Security Authority)
Counter-intelligence officer. Trained at KGB.
James Szell: CIA Chief of Station, Budapest.
Peter "Spike" Ericsson: U.S. Ambassador, Hungary.
Andy Hudson: SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) Chief of Station, Budapest.
Istvan Kovacs: Smuggler (through the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border)
Tom Trent: Works for Andy Hudson.
Chris Morton: Works for Andy Hudson.
Richard Dover: British Ambassador, Budapest
Rodney Truelove: Former Sergeant, British Embassy employee.
Bob Small: Former Sergeant, British Embassy employee.
Jani: Istvan Kovac's driver
Captain Budai Laszlo: Hungarian Border Officer
Zsóka Laszlo: Captain Laszlo's daughter
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Vic Lucas: SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) Chief of Station, Budapest.
Cover: Senior Political Counselor, British Embassy, Belgrade.
Captain Rogers: British Midlands Airways Captain.
MI-5: British Security Service, counterespionage arm of the British Government.
Thanks so much, I was having a headache keeping track of the characters and confused Paul (reporter) with Tony.