Command Authority

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

John Patrick “Jack” Ryan: President of the United States

Dan Murray: attorney general of the United States

Arnold Van Damm: President’s chief of staff

Robert Burgess: secretary of defense

Scott Adler: secretary of state

Mary Patricia Foley: director of the Office of National Intelligence

Jay Canfield: director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Admiral James Greer: director of intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency

Judge Arthur Moore: director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Keith Bixby: chief of station, Kiev, Ukraine, Central Intelligence Agency

Admiral Mark Jorgensen: chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Eric Conway: Chief Warrant Officer Two, United States Army, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior pilot

Andre “Dre” Page: Chief Warrant Officer Two, United States Army, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior copilot

Barry “Midas” Jankowski: lieutenant colonel, United States Army, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta

Harris “Grungy” Cole: captain, United States Air Force, F-16 pilot

Gerry Hendley: director of The Campus / Hendley Associates

John Clark: director of operations

Domingo “Ding” Chavez: operations officer

Sam Driscoll: operations officer

Dominic “Dom” Caruso: operations officer

Jack Ryan, Jr.: operations officer / intelligence analyst

Gavin Biery: director of information technology

Adara Sherman: director of transportation

Sir Basil Charleston: director general of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Anthony Haldane: international financier, ex — Foreign Office

Victor Oxley aka Bedrock: 22nd Special Air Service Regiment — Officer, British Security Service (MI5)

David Penright: officer, SIS (MI6)

Nicholas Eastling: SIS officer, Counterintelligence Section

Hugh Castor: managing director, Castor and Boyle Risk Analytics Ltd

Sandy Lamont: senior business analyst, Castor and Boyle Risk Analytics Ltd

Valeri Volodin: president of the Russian Federation

Roman Talanov: director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation

Stanislav Biryukov: director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation

Sergey Golovko: ex-director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation

Oksana Zueva: leader of the Ukrainian Regional Unity Party

Tatiana Molchanova: television newscaster, Novaya Rossiya (New Russia)

Dmitri Nesterov, aka Gleb the Scar: vory v zakonye (“thief-in-law”), operative of the Seven Strong Men criminal organization

Pavel Lechkov: Seven Strong Men operative

Caroline “Cathy” Ryan: First Lady of the United States

Edward Foley: husband of Mary Pat Foley, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Dino Kadic: Croatian assassin

Felicia Rodríguez: Venezuelan university student

Marta Scheuring: “urban guerrilla” of the Red Army Faction

Malcolm Galbraith: owner of Galbraith Rossiya Energy Holdings, Scottish entrepreneur