Countdown to Midnight

Cast of Characters

NICK FLYNN, agent, former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer

LAURA VAN HORN, agent, and a captain in the Alaska Air National Guard

CARLETON FREDERICK FOX, head of the Directorate’s American Station, Avalon House

GWEN PARK, chief of security, American Station, Avalon House

GIDEON AYISH, head of the Directorate’s Israeli Station

TADEUSZ KOSSAK, agent, former officer in Poland’s Special Forces

SHANNON COOKE, agent, former member of the U.S. Army’s ultra-secret Mission Support Activity

ALAIN RICARD, agent, former officer in France’s elite Marine Commandos

SARA McCULLOCH, Predator drone operator, former staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force

MARK STADLER, security officer, Avalon House, former member of U.S Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance

TONY McGILL, agent, former sergeant in the British Special Air Service (SAS)

COLE HYNES, agent, former enlisted man, U.S. Army

WADE VUCOVICH, agent, former enlisted man, U.S. Army

JACK “RIPPER” INGALLS, LM-100J pilot, major in the Alaska Air National Guard

PAVEL VORONIN, owner and chief executive officer

VIKTOR SKOBLIN, team leader, former major, Russian Spetsnaz special forces

VASILY KONDAKOV, Voronin’s top deputy, a former colonel in the GRU (Russia’s military intelligence agency)

YURI LINNIK, operative, former Spetsnaz officer

KIRILL ZAITSEV, operative, former Spetsnaz officer

DIMITRI FADEYEV, operative, former member of GRU assassination force, Unit 29155

YVGENY KVYAT, drone operator, former officer in the GRU

KONSTANTIN DANILEVSKY, team leader aboard SSBN-64 Podmoskovye, former colonel in the Russian Spetsnaz special forces

CHARLES HORNE, director of Central Intelligence

MIRANDA REYNOLDS, head of the Directorate of Operations

PHILIP DEMOPOULOS, head of the Directorate of Analysis

PIOTR ZHDANOV, president of the Russian Federation

COLONEL MIKHAIL KRYLOV, 12th Main Directorate, Russian Ministry of Defense

MAJOR ANATOLY YAKEMENKO, 12th Main Directorate, Russian Ministry of Defense

CAPTAIN LEONID KAZMIN, 12th Main Directorate, Russian Ministry of Defense

ADMIRAL BORIS PLESHAKOV, commander, Northern Fleet

CAPTAIN FIRST RANK MIKHAIL NAKHIMOV, Russian Navy, commander, SSBN-64 Podmoskovye

SENIOR LIEUTENANT IVAN POKROVSKY, Russian Navy, navigating officer, SSBN-64 Podmoskovye

CAPTAIN SECOND RANK MAXIM ARSHAVIN, Russian Navy, executive officer, SSBN-64 Podmoskovye

LIEUTENANT LEONID VOLKOV, Russian Navy, radio officer, SSBN-64 Podmoskovye

GENNADY KOKORIN, Minister of Defense

ADMIRAL NIKOLAI GOLITSYN, commander, Russian Navy

LIEUTENANT GENERAL YVGENY ROGOZIN, commander, Russian Air Force

KONSTANTIN YUMASHEV, head of the Federal Security Service, the FSB

SERGEI VESELOVSKY, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR

ALEKSANDR IVASHIN, head of the General Staff’s military intelligence agency, the GRU

MAJOR GENERAL KONSTANTIN REZANOV, commander 42nd Rocket Division, Strategic Rocket Forces

SENIOR LIEUTENANT ANATOLY YALINSKY, Russian Navy, diving officer, SSBN-64 Podmoskovye

MOHSEN SHIRAZI, commander, Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force

ARIF KHAVARI, high-ranking official in Iran’s state-owned shipping company

DR. HOSSEIN MAJIDI, chief missile engineer, Shahrud Missile Test Facility

NAVID DANESHVAR, naval architect employed by the Shahid Darvishi Shipyards, Bandar Abbas

LIEUTENANT HASSAN NOORIAN, member of Revolutionary Guard escort force for MIDNIGHT truck convoy

CAPTAIN REZA HEIDARI, Revolutionary Guard Corps naval officer, commander of the Gulf Venture

TOURAJ DABIR, Revolutionary Guard Corps naval officer, second-in-command aboard the Gulf Venture

LIEUTENANT COLONEL DOV TAMIR, military attaché to Austria, also a member of the IDF’s Secret Liaison Unit

RIVKA AMAR, Mossad officer, chief of security, Israeli embassy to Austria

MIRIAM WEISS, chief of the consular section, Israeli embassy to Austria

AVI ELAZAR, high-ranking official in the Israeli government

COMMANDER RAFAEL ALON, head of Shayatet 13, Israel’s naval commando force

MASOUD BOKHARAI, government official, Nimroz Province, Afghanistan