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A Cold War Novel of Lies and Love

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Americans

William Osbourne — Cultural Affairs Officer at the Embassy; CIA chief of station; Jack’s direct boss, both on the overt and covert sides

Glen Evans (33) — junior Cultural Affairs Officer

Grant Whittaker (27) — Marine guard and Jack’s friend.

Savannah Jones (25) — CIA case officer; Jack’s cover girlfriend.

Florence Neumann — chief of station, East Berlin, 1986

David Rolston — chief of station, East Berlin, 1989

Russians

Vera Volkonskaya (40) — Eton’s mother; linguist and translator of English literature, youngest daughter of Prof. Volkonsky. Carries the Volkonsky-Rezanov lineage (see Eton’s entry).

Anya Arsenieva (20) — Eton’s childhood friend; MGU math student; family lives in the same Chistye Prudy building as Prof. Volkonsky’s apartment, where Eton grew up. Eton and Seva’s oldest friend.

Seva Lapshin (21) — Eton’s childhood friend; MGU biology student; drummer of Wings;

Anton Gubin (17) — a math prodigy, Anya classmate and Eton’s friend.

Grisha Tepman (23) — postgraduate nuclear physics student.

Viktor Karelin (35) — theater director and Lara’s drama teacher.

Leonid Dimitrievich Novikov (50) — Deputy Minister of Culture, recently appointed, moved to Moscow from Stavropol (Gorbachev’s home region).

Dmitri Alexandrovich Arseniev (45) — Anya’s father; PhD/Doctor of Science, physicist;

Felix Alimzhanov — KGB operative in East Berlin (Part III)

Germans

Brits

Amanda Plante — wife/ex-wife of Mike Demidoff, freelance journalist covering Soviet/Russian culture and music.

Helen — Paul’s wife (Part III)

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