Shadow of the Dragon

Principal Characters

Jack Ryan: President of the United States

Arnold “Arnie” van Damm: President Ryan’s chief of staff

Mary Pat Foley: Director of national intelligence

Scott Adler: Secretary of state

Robert Burgess: Secretary of defense

Admiral John Talbot: Chief of naval operations

Gary Montgomery: Special agent, Secret Service Presidential Protection Detail

Jay Canfield: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Robbie Forestall: Commander of the United States Navy, adviser to President Ryan

Gerry Hendley: Director of The Campus and Hendley Associates

John Clark: Director of operations

Domingo “Ding” Chavez: Assistant director of operations

Jack Ryan, Jr.: Operations officer/senior analyst

Dominic “Dom” Caruso: Operations officer

Adara Sherman: Operations officer

Bartosz “Midas” Jankowski: Operations officer

Gavin Biery: Director of information technology

Lisanne Robertson: Director of transportation

Dr. Caroline “Cathy” Ryan: First Lady of the United States

Adam Yao: CIA case officer (NOC)

Dr. Patti Moon: Scientist on light icebreaker R/V Sikuliaq

Kelli Symonds: First officer, R/V Sikuliaq

Chief Petty Officer Shad Barker: Sonar technician, USS John Paul Jones

Liu Wangshu: Engineering professor

Medina Tohti: Uyghur woman, fugitive from PRC authorities

Hala Tohti: Medina’s daughter

Zulfira Azizi: Medina’s sister; Hala’s aunt

Timur Samedi: Kashgar contact

Yunus Samedi: Kashgar contact

Ren Shuren: Major, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

Ren Zhelan: Chinese assistant bureaucrat, Kashgar Medina

Mr. Suo: Chinese bureaucrat, Kashgar

Ma “Mamut” Jianyu: Leader of the Wuming movement; Uyghur mother, Han father

Zheng Guiying: PLAN admiral in charge of naval intelligence

Fu Bohai: Zheng’s henchman and primary hunter of Medina

Qiu: Fu Bohai’s assistant

Sun Luoyang: Captain

Bai Jiahao: Commander, XO (Executive Officer)

Tian Ju: Captain

Wan Xiuying: Commander, XO (Executive Officer)

Cole Condiff: Captain

Lowdermilk: Lieutenant, officer of the deck

Markette: Petty officer, sonar technician

Ramirez: New crew member

Roosevelt “Rosey” Jackson: Captain, USS Makin Island; nephew of former POTUS Robert Jackson

Jay Rapoza: Captain, USCG icebreaker Healy

Monica Hendricks: CIA operations officer in charge of ELISE

Peter Li: Retired USN admiral

David Wallace: FBI counterintelligence agent assigned to ELISE

Odette Miller: CIA counterintelligence officer

Tim Meyer: CIA case officer

Leigh Murphy: CIA case officer, Tirana

Fredrick Rask: CIA chief of station, Tirana

Vlora Cafaro: CIA case officer, Tirana

Joey Shoop: CIA officer, Tirana

Urkesh Beg: Uyghur refugee living in asylum in Albania

ELISE: Operation to find Chinese mole within U.S. intelligence

PLAN: People’s Liberation Army Navy

Bingtuan: “The Corps,” short for Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps