Blackmail

COMPLETE CAST OF CHARACTERS

KEVIN HARDISON, chief of staff

BOB MCVEIGH, secretary of defense

DAWN CABRAL, secretary of state

CHRISTINE O’CONNOR, national security advisor

BILL DUBOSE (Colonel), senior military aide

SHEREE HINTON, White House intern

ANDY WHEELER (General), Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

BRIAN RETTMAN (Admiral), Chief of Naval Operations

DAVE THAMES (Commander), Commanding Officer

JOE WHITE (Lieutenant Commander), Executive Officer

MURRAY WILSON (Captain), Commanding Officer

DAVE BEASLEY (Lieutenant Commander), Executive Officer

KELLY HAAS (Lieutenant Commander), Supply Officer

CHARLIE EATON (Lieutenant), Navigator

MIKE LAWSON (Lieutenant), Weapons Officer

JAYNE STUCKER (Lieutenant), Junior Officer

CHRIS SHROYER (Lieutenant), Junior Officer

PAT LEENSTRA (Electronics Technician Second Class), Quartermaster

JOHN MCNEIL (Commander), SEAL Team Commander

JAKE HARRISON (Lieutenant), SEAL Platoon Officer-in-Charge

ROB MAYDWELL (Special Warfare Operator First Class), breacher

WAYNE BROWN (Special Warfare Operator Second Class), communicator

RICHARD MENDELSON (Special Warfare Operator Second Class), sniper

JOE ALEO (Commander), Medical Officer

BRAD WALLER (Commander), Commanding Officer

GEORGE SKEENS (Lieutenant), Junior Officer

DAVID RANDLE (Captain), Commanding Officer

BRENT SITES (Captain), Combat Direction Center (CDC) Operations Officer

BILL HOUSTON / call sign Samurai (Lieutenant Commander), F/A-18E pilot

DAVE HERNANDEZ / call sign TexMex (Lieutenant), F/A-18E pilot

RICH TILGHMAN (Captain), Commanding Officer

DOLORES GONZALEZ (Captain), Combat Direction Center (CDC) Operations Officer

JOE MARTIN (Captain), Delta Force team leader

PATRICK TERRILL (Staff Sergeant), Delta Force team member

MIKE PECK (Major), B-1B pilot

LEO FALARDEAU (Lieutenant), MH-60R pilot

JOHN MARTIN (Lieutenant Commander), P-8A Tactical Coordinator

TIM JOHNS (Cryptologic Technician Networks Second Class), U.S. Cyber Warfare Command

STU NELSON (Staff Sergeant), Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician

JOHN BROWN (Captain), Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal company commander

JESSICA CHERRY, director of the Central Intelligence Agency

JOHN KAUFMANN, Central Intelligence Agency interrogator

KATRINA WETZEL, U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China

NATASHA GRAHAM, U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation

BARRY GRAHAM, aide to the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation

MARK JOHNSON, Russian translator (American embassy)

ELENA KRAYEV, Russian translator (CIA agent)

YURI KALININ, president

BORIS CHERNOV, defense minister

ANDREI LAVROV, foreign minister

SERGEI IVANOV, national security advisor

MAKSIM POSNIAK, director of security and disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

SEMYON GOREV, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

ANDREI TUPOLEV, ambassador to the United States

DANIL SOKOLOV, ambassador to the People’s Republic of China

SERGEI ANDROPOV (General), chief of the general staff

ALEXEI VOLODIN (Colonel General), Commander-in-Chief, Aerospace Forces

VIKTOR GLUKOV (Colonel General), Commander-in-Chief, Ground Forces

OLEG LIPOVSKY (Admiral), Commander-in-Chief, Navy

LEONID SHIMKO (Admiral), Commander, Northern Fleet

PAVEL KLOKOV (Admiral), Commander, Pacific Fleet

VITALY VASILIEV (Major General), Commanding Officer, 448th Missile Brigade

DMITRI PAVLOV (Captain First Rank), Commanding Officer

MIKHAIL EVANOFF (Captain Second Rank), First Officer

LUDVIG DOLINSKI (Captain Lieutenant), Central Command Post Watch Officer

VADIM ALEYEV (Major), Sukhoi Su-35S pilot

ANTON BELIKOV (Captain Lieutenant), Spetsnaz platoon leader

ROMAN SAVVIN (Sergeant First Class), VDV paratrooper

ANTON FEDOROV, detonator designer

VAGIT ALEKPEROV, president of LUKoil Oil Company

BOGDAN MELIKOV, supervisor at Omsk Oil Refinery

BELARUSIAN

ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO, president

EDWARD AYMAR (Colonel), Commander, 11th Guards Mechanized Brigade

XIANG CHENGLEI, president of China and general secretary of the Party

XIE HAI, president’s executive assistant

DEEPAK MADAN, president

ANKUR KUMAR, minister of defense

RAHUL GUPTA, minister of external affairs

NAVEEN CHANDRA, ambassador to the United States

JOHAN VAN DER BIE, secretary-general

SUSAN GATES, United Kingdom prime minister

FRANÇOIS LOUBET, French president

EMMA SCHMIDT, German chancellor

DALIA GRYBAUSKAITĖ, Lithuanian president

ALEX RUDENKO, Opposition Bloc politician

RANDY GUIMOND, Russian SVR agent