Dragon Fire

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Keith Backhurst — Defence Minister

Malcolm Smith — Prime Minister

Kang Suyin — Ambassador to Moscow

Leung Liyin, General — Defence Minister

Tao Jian — President

Tang Siju — Second Deputy, Chief of the General Staff

Tashi — Chinese agent in India

Teng Guo Feng — Ambassador to Islamabad

Jamie Song — Foreign Minister

Lhundrub Togden — jailed Tibetan Buddhist monk

Indrajit Bagchi — Home Minister

Colonel Neelan Chidambaram — commander,

Baghla (Wool) sector

Major Gendun Choedrak — Leader of Special Frontier

Force operation

Amrit Dhal — Group Captain, No. 24 Squadron

‘Hunting Hawks’

Hari Dixit — Prime Minister

Captain Tsangpo Jamyang — Second in charge of SFF operation

Corporal Vasant Kaul — Singh’s tank driver

Unni Khrishnan — Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Mani Naidu — Director of the Intelligence Bureau

General Prabhu Ninan — Western army commander

Lieutenant General Gurjit Singh — Commander, XXI

Armoured Corps

Prabhu Purie — Foreign Minister

Chandra Reddy — Special Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing

Shanti Tirthankara — anti-nuclear activist

General Shigehiko Ogawa — Director, Defence

Intelligence Headquarters

Shigeto Wada — Prime Minister

Michael Hall — SBS Royal Marines sniper

Harriet Sheehan — Prime Minister

Benjamin Leigh — Defence Minister

Mullah al-Bishri — Islamic leader

General Sadek Hussein — Special Defence Attaché to Beijing

Javed Jabbar — Ambassador to Beijing

Yasin Kalapur — Air Marshal and coup leader

Dr Malik Khalid — missile physicist

General Mohamed Hamid Khan — Chief of Army Staff and coup leader

Ahmed Magam — deposed Deputy Finance Minister

Captain Mohammed Masood — Khan’s

aide-de-camp

Saeed — Stinger marksman

Nikolai Baltin — Ambassador to Beijing

Vladimir Gorbunov — President

John Chiu — Prime Minister

Lin Chung-ling — President

Christopher Baker — Foreign Secretary

Martin Cartwright — BBC Asia Correspondent

Martin Evans — Head of South Asian Department

Eileen Glenny — Press secretary, Prime Minister’s office

David Guinness — Defence Secretary

General (Rtd) Sir Peter Hanman — BBC television commentator

Max Harding — BBC television presenter

Sir Malcolm Parton — Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Anthony Pincher — Prime Minister

Darren Scott — BBC Asia cameraman

John Stopping — Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee

Robin Sutcliffe — Head of News Gathering, BBC

Lord Mani Thapar — Indian businessman

Milton Ashdown — Ambassador to Moscow

Ennio Barber — Presidential adviser

Tom Bloodworth — National Security Advisor

David Booth — Head of CIA

John Hastings — President

Joan Holden — Secretary of State

Stuart Hollingworth — Commerce Secretary

Alvin Jebb — Defense Secretary

Charles Nugent — White House Chief of Staff

Reece Overhalt — Ambassador to Beijing

Arthur Watkins — Ambassador to Islamabad