Commander-in-Chief

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

Jack Ryan: President of the United States

Scott Adler: secretary of state

Mary Pat Foley: director of national intelligence

Robert “Bob” Burgess: secretary of defense

Jay Canfield: director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Dan Murray: attorney general

Arnold Van Damm: President Ryan’s chief of staff

Peter Branyon: CIA chief of station, Vilnius, Lithuania

Greg Donlin: CIA security officer

Roland Hazelton: admiral, chief of naval operations, United States Navy

Scott Hagen: commander, captain of USS James Greer (DDG-102), United States Navy

Phil Kincaid: lieutenant commander, executive officer of USS James Greer (DDG-102), United States Navy

Damon Hart: lieutenant, weapons officer on USS James Greer (DDG-102), United States Navy

Richard “Rich” Belanger: lieutenant colonel, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, United States Marine Corps; battalion commander of the Black Sea Rotational Force

Gerry Hendley: director, The Campus/Hendley Associates

John Clark: director of operations

Domingo “Ding” Chavez: senior operations officer

Dominic “Dom” Caruso: operations officer

Jack Ryan, Jr.: operations officer/analyst

Gavin Biery: director of information technology

Adara Sherman: director of transportation

Valeri Volodin: president of the Russian Federation

Mikhail “Misha” Grankin: director of the Kremlin Security Council (Russian intelligence)

Arkady Diburov: chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom, Russian natural gas company

Andrei Limonov (Mr. Ivanov): Russian private equity manager

Vlad Kozlov (Mr. Popov): intelligence operative in the Kremlin Security Council

Yegor Morozov: intelligence operative in the Kremlin Security Council

Tatiana Molchanova: television newscaster, Novorossiya (Channel Seven)

Martina Jaeger: Dutch contract killer

Braam Jaeger: Dutch contract killer

Terry Walker: president and CEO of BlackHole Bitcoin Exchange, cryptocurrency trader

Kate Walker: wife of Terry Walker

Noah Walker: son of Terry and Kate Walker

Eglė Banytė: president of Lithuania

Marion Schöngarth: president of the Federal Republic of Germany

Salvatore: Italian paparazzo

Christine von Langer: former CIA case officer

Herkus Zarkus: Lithuanian fiber-optic network technician; Land Force soldier

Linus Sabonis: director, Lithuanian State Security Department

ARAS: Lithuanian police antiterrorist operations unit

ASROC: Antisubmarine rocket

ASW: Antisubmarine warfare

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

CNO: Chief of Naval Operations

CIWS: Phalanx close-in weapons system

DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency

FSB: Federal’naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, Russian State Security

JSOC: Joint Special Operations Command

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NGA: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NSA: National Security Agency

ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence

ONI: Office of Naval Intelligence

RAT: Remote Administration Tool

SAU: Search and Attack Unit

SIPRNet: Secret Internet Protocol Router Network — Classified network for U.S. Intelligence community

SOF: Special Operations Forces

TAC: Tactical Air Controller

TAO: Tactical Action Officer

USWE: Undersea Warfare Evaluator

VHRJTF: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force — NATO