Fatal Thunder

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Commander Jerry Mitchell, Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Bernie Thigpen, Executive Officer

Lieutenant Commander Philip Sobecki, Chief Engineer

Lieutenant Steven Westbrook, Supply Officer (“the Chop”)

Lieutenant David Covey, Weapons Officer

Lieutenant Russell Iverson, Main Propulsion Assistant

Lieutenant Kiyoshi Iwahashi, Damage Control Assistant

Lieutenant (j.g.) Quela Lymburn (“Q”), Assistant Weapons Officer

Lieutenant (j.g.) Stuart Gaffney, Sonar Officer

Senior Chief Sonar Technician Halleck, Sonar Division Chief Petty Officer

Lieutenant Commander Gill Adams, Executive Officer, USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723)

Gregory Alexander, U.S. Director of National Intelligence

Milt Alvarez, White House Chief of Staff

Rear Admiral Wayne Burroughs, Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Commander Bruce Dobson, Commanding Officer, USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723)

Malcolm Geisler, U.S. Secretary of Defense

Allison Gray, Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Senator Lowell Hardy (D-CT), former captain of USS Memphis (SSN 691)

Admiral Bernard Hughes, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations

Captain Glenn Jacobs, Commander, Submarine Squadron (SUBRON) 15 Chief Staff Officer

Andrew Lloyd, U.S. Secretary of State

Evangeline McDowell, President’s secretary

Kenneth L. Myles, President of the United States

Commander Scott Nevens, Commanding Officer, USS North Carolina (SSN 777)

Commander Ian Pascovich, Commanding Officer, USS Texas (SSN 775)

Dr. Joanna Patterson, U.S. National Security Advisor

James Randall, Vice President of the United States

Captain Charles Simonis, SUBRON 15

Commander Richard Walker, SUBRON 15 Operations Officer

Robert Eldridge, U.S. Ambassador to India

Admiral Jing Fei, Commander, People’s Liberation Army Navy

Lieutenant/Major Li Shen, intelligence officer, People’s Liberation Army

General Shi We, Chinese Minister of National Defense

Lieutenant General Tian Ju, Commander, Hong Kong Garrison

Major General Yeng Gan, Chinese Defense Attaché to the United States

Xi Ping, Chinese Ambassador to the United States

Captain Zhang Bo, Commander, Hong Kong Garrison Naval Brigade

Jascha Churkin, former Spetsnaz commando and Kirichenko’s deputy

Captain Yetim Sergievich Gribov, Master of the icebreaker 50 Years of Victory

Vice Admiral Ivan Loktev, Deputy Commander of the Russian Northern Fleet

Admiral Yuri Kirichenko, Russian Navy (Ret.), former Commander of the Russian Northern Fleet

Anton Kulik, former Russian naval officer and technician working on Chakra’s overhaul

Captain Mishin, Russian Naval Attaché to the United States

Evgeni Orlav, former Russian naval officer and technical expert on Russian nuclear weapons

Captain First Rank Aleksey Igorevich Petrov, Russian Navy (Ret.), former captain of Russian submarine Severodvinsk

Arkady Vaslev, Russian Ambassador to the United States

Captain First Rank Viktor Zhikin, Commanding Officer of the 328th Expeditionary Rescue Squad

Valery Zykov, Russian diplomat and Washington station chief for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

Vice Admiral Badu Singh Dhankhar, Commander of the Eastern Fleet

Larraj Handa, President of India

Gopan Jadeja, Indian Foreign Minister

Vishnu Kumar, Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation

Captain Mitra, Supervisor of the Visakhapatnam Shipyard

Commander Fali Gandhi, Visakhapatnam Shipyard Weapons Engineer

Shankar Pathak, Indian Prime Minister

Captain Girish Samant, former Commanding Officer of the submarine Chakra

Special Director Ijay Thapar, Deputy Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation

Commander Maahir Jain, Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Kumar Rakash, First Officer

Lieutenant Jal Kirit, Combat Systems Officer

Lieutenant Harish Kota, Navigator

Chief Petty Officer Patil, senior sonar rating