Price of Duty

Cast of Characters

STACY ANNE BARBEAU, president of the United States of America

EDWARD RAUCH, president’s national security adviser

KAREN GRAYSON, secretary of state

LUKE COHEN, White House chief of staff

JAMES BUCHANAN NASH, CIA director

SCOTT FIRESTONE, admiral, U.S. Navy, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

RAYMOND SATTLER, special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

KRISTIN VOORHEES, intelligence analyst, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

KEVIN MARTINDALE, president of Scion, former president of the United States of America

BRAD MCLANAHAN, Cybernetic Infantry Device (CID) pilot and XCV-62 Ranger pilot, Iron Wolf Squadron

PATRICK MCLANAHAN, Cybernetic Infantry Device (CID) pilot, Iron Wolf Squadron ground operations unit, former lieutenant general, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

WAYNE “WHACK” MACOMBER, commander, Iron Wolf Squadron CID operations, former major, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (ret.)

IAN SCHOFIELD, commander, Iron Wolf deep-penetration unit, former captain in Canada’s Special Operations Regiment

SAMANTHA KERR, operative, Scion Intelligence

MARCUS CARTWRIGHT, operative, Scion Intelligence

DAVID JONES, operative, Scion Intelligence

ANDREW DAVIS, Iron Wolf deep-penetration unit, former sergeant, U.S. Army Special Forces

MIKE KNAPP, Iron Wolf deep-penetration unit, former sergeant, U.S. Army Special Forces

CHRIS WALKER, Iron Wolf deep-penetration unit, former sergeant, U.S. Army Special Forces

HUNTER “BOOMER” NOBLE, Ph.D., chief of aerospace engineering, Sky Masters Aerospace Inc.

CHARLIE TURLOCK, Cybernetic Infantry Device (CID) specialist, former captain, U.S. Army National Guard

JASON RICHTER, colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), Ph.D., chief executive officer

TOM ROGERS, remote piloting specialist

GENNADIY ANATOLIYVICH GRYZLOV, president of the Russian Federation

SERGEI TARZAROV, president’s chief of staff

GREGOR SOKOLOV, minister of defense

VIKTOR KAZYANOV, minister of state security

DARIA TITENEVA, foreign minister

IVAN ULANOV, president’s private secretary

COLONEL GENERAL VALENTIN MAKSIMOV, commander of the Aerospace Defense Forces

IGOR TRUZNYEV, former president of the Russian Federation and former head for the Federal Security Service (FSB), currently chief of Zatmeniye (“Eclipse”) Consulting Group, a private espionage firm

MAJOR GENERAL ARKADY KOSHKIN, chief of FSB’s Q Directorate

COLONEL VLADIMIR BALAKIN, chief of security for Perun’s Aerie cyberwar complex

MAJOR LEONID USENKO, Special Surveillance Unit, Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)

CAPTAIN KONSTANTIN RUSANOV, GRU Special Surveillance Unit

CAPTAIN ARTEM MIKHEYEV, GRU special technical officer

COLONEL YEVGENY PERMINOV, GRU liaison officer

AHMAD USMAEV, warlord, Chechen Republic

MAJOR PAVEL BEREZIN, detachment commander, Vympel (“Pennant”) Spetsnaz unit

CAPTAIN ANDREI CHIRKASH, detachment second in command, Vympel Spetsnaz unit

TIMUR SAITIEV, Chechen fighter

YURI AKULOV, former FSB officer, currently an operative for Zatmeniye Consulting Group

IVAN BUDANOV, senior nuclear supervisor, Atomflot

DR. NIKOLAI OBOLENSKY, software lab directory, Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering (NNIIRT)

MAJOR GENERAL VIKTOR POLICHEV, Aerospace Defense Forces, senior military aide to Colonel General Maksimov

TARAS IVCHENKO, former FSB officer, currently an operative for Zatmeniye Consulting Group

MAJOR GENERAL KIRILL GLAZKOV, commander of the FSB’s V Directorate

LIEUTENANT MIKHAIL KURITSYN, Vympel Spetsnaz unit

MAJOR ALEXEI RYKOV, Su-27 fighter pilot

SERGEANT IVAN ANANKO, Vympel Spetsnaz unit

SERGEANT DMITRY SAVICHEV, Vympel Spetsnaz unit

LEONID PEROV, former FSB officer, bodyguard for Igor Truznyev

CAPTAIN FYODOR GOLOVKIN, commander, Kipiyevo radar outpost

COLONEL RUSLAN BARYSHEV, Su-50 fighter pilot

CAPTAIN OLEG IMREKOV, Su-50 fighter pilot

MAJOR GENERAL ANATOLIY KAVERIN, commander, 2nd Aerospace Defense Brigade

PIOTR WILK, president of Poland; former general in the Polish Air Force and commander of the 1st Air Defense Wing

KLAUDIA RYBAK, prime minister

JANUSZ GIEREK, minister of national defense and deputy prime minister

MAJOR NADIA ROZEK, military aide to President Piotr Wilk, attached to Iron Wolf Squadron as copilot and systems operator for XCV-62 Ranger

MAJOR GENERAL MILOSZ DOMANSKI, Polish Land Forces

COLONEL PAWEŁ KASPEREK, F-16 fighter pilot and commander of the Polish Air Force’s 3rd Tactical Squadron

MAJOR DARIUSZ STEPNIAK, head of presidential security detail, Bureau of Government Protection (BOR)

JAROSŁAW ROGOSKI, senior vice president, PKO Bank Polski

MARTA STACHOWSKA, chief technology officer, PKO Bank Polski

CAPTAIN TOMASZ JAGIELSKI, F-16 fighter pilot, 3rd Tactical Squadron

GENERAL INSPECTOR MAREK BRZEZIŃSKI, commander, Polish National Police Force

MAJOR GENERAL CZESŁAW MADEJSKI, deputy command, Alliance of Free Nations (AFN) Northern Air Operations Center

CAPTAIN JERZY KONARSKI, Northern Air Operations Center

MARIUSZ BRODSKI, senior investigator for PKBWL, Poland’s aircraft accident investigative agency

KAROL SIKORA, sergeant, Polish Special Forces, attached to Iron Wolf Squadron deep-penetration unit

ALEXE DUMITRU, president of Romania

MARKU PROCA, control room supervisor, Cernavodă Nuclear Power Station, Unit Two

NICOLAE DIACONU, senior plant operator, Cernavodă Unit Two

ION MORAR, senior plant operator, Cernavodă Unit Two

VASILE ENESCU, emergency coordinator, Cernavodă Unit Two

SERGEANT EDVARDAS NOREIKA, State Border Guard of Lithuania

COLONEL REINIS ZARINŠ, Latvian Air Force intelligence officer attached to AFN’s Northern Air Operations Center

SVEN KALDA, prime minister of Estonia

LIEUTENANT COLONEL INAR TAMM, Estonian Air Force

KAARLE MARKKULA, captain, Flight 851

TUOMAS SAARELA, first officer, Flight 851