The Kremlin Strike

Cast of Characters

JOHN DALTON FARRELL, president of the United States of America

ANDREW TALIAFERRO, secretary of state

DR. LAWRENCE DAWSON, PH.D., White House science adviser

ELIZABETH HILDEBRAND, CIA director

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

AMANDA HAYES, major general, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Strategic Command Missile and Space Warning CENTER

THOMAS NISHIYAMA, commander, U.S. Navy, White House military aide

DANE “VIKING” THORSEN, commander, U.S. Navy, F/A-18E Super Hornet squadron commander, USS Ronald Reagan

HUNTER “BOOMER” NOBLE, PH.D., chief of aerospace engineering, Sky Masters Aerospace, Inc., lead pilot for the reactivated S-series spaceplane program

BRAD MCLANAHAN, spaceplane pilot and Cybernetic Orbital Maneuvering System (COMS) pilot

MAJOR NADIA ROZEK, spaceplane pilot and COMS pilot

PETER CHARLES “CONSTABLE” VASEY, former pilot in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm, spaceplane pilot and COMS pilot

JASON RICHTER, PH.D., colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), chief executive officer of Sky Masters Aerospace, Inc.

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

PATRICK MCLANAHAN, technology and intelligence expert, former lieutenant general, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

IAN SCHOFIELD, Scion deep-penetration expert, former major in Canada’s Special Operations Regiment

SAMANTHA KERR, operative, Scion Intelligence

MARCUS CARTWRIGHT, operative, Scion Intelligence

DAVID JONES, operative, Scion Intelligence

ZACH ORLOV, computer operations specialist, Scion Intelligence

LIZ GALLAGHER, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.), copilot, S-29B Shadow spaceplane

JAVIER REYES, data-link officer, S-29B Shadow spaceplane

PAUL JACOBS, defensive systems officer, S-29B Shadow spaceplane

JILL ANDERSON, lieutenant commander, U.S. Navy (ret.), offensive weapons officer, S-29B Shadow spaceplane

GENNADIY ANATOLIYVICH GRYZLOV, president of the Russian Federation

COLONEL GENERAL MIKHAIL IVANOVICH LEONOV, commander, Aerospace Forces, head of the Mars Project

VIKTOR KAZYANOV, minister of state security

DARIA TITENEVA, foreign minister

MAJOR GENERAL ARKADY KOSHKIN, chief of the Federal Security Service’s Q Directorate

CAPTAIN DMITRY POPOV, aide to Arkady Koshkin

LIEUTENANT COLONEL VASILY DRAGOMIROV, field operative for Russian military intelligence (GRU)

MAJOR EDUARD NAUMOV, technical officer, GRU Ninth Directorate

COLONEL VADIM STRELKOV, Space Forces cosmonaut, Mars One commander

MAJOR GEORGY KONNIKOV, Space Forces cosmonaut, Mars One sensor officer

YURI KLEMENTIYEV, launch director, Vostochny Cosmodrome

ALEXEI GREGORJEV, launch director, Baikonur Cosmodrome

MAJOR ALEXEI RYKOV, Su-27 pilot, former Mars Project cosmonaut candidate

CAPTAIN SERGEI NOVITSKI, Su-27 pilot

LIEUTENANT COLONEL PAVEL ANIKEYEV, Space Forces cosmonaut, Mars One second in command

MAJOR VIKTOR FILATYEV, Space Forces cosmonaut, Mars One chief weapons officer

CAPTAIN LEONID REVIN, Space Forces cosmonaut, Mars One deputy weapons officer

MAJOR PYOTR ROMANENKO, Space Forces cosmonaut, Mars One engineering and special action officer

LIEUTENANT NIKOLAY KHRYUKIN, Air Force meteorology officer

COLONEL VLADIMIR TITOV, commander, 1529th Guards Air Defense Missile Regiment

LIEUTENANT GENERAL SEMYON TIKHOMIROV, second in command, Aerospace Forces

COLONEL IVAN FEDEROV, Su-35 pilot and commander, 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment

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

KAROL SIKORA, sergeant, Polish Special Forces

TADEUSZ DOMBROWSKI, sergeant, Polish Special Forces

CHARLES COSTELLO, brigadier general, duty controller, North American Aerospace Defense Command