| | | | Part 1 |
| 1 | Tom | Carew | Keggie's father. A retired spy. Aka: Lawrence of Burma, Thomas Arthur Carew. |
| | Jane | Carew | Keggie's mother. Tom's 2nd wife. |
| | Patrick | Carew | Keggie's older brother. |
| | Jonathan | | Keggie's husband. |
| | Nicky | Carew | Keggie's sister. |
| 2 | Tim | Carew | Keggie's younger brother. |
| | Stepmother | | Keggie's stepmother. Tom's 3rd wife. |
| | Robert | Taylor | An historian. |
| 3 | Basho | | A 17th century poet. |
| | Ron | Brierley | Tom's radio operator in Burma. |
| | Dick | Rubenstein | Tom's radio operator in Burma. |
| | John | Sharp | Tom's radio operator in Burma. |
| | Ivy | Sharp | John's wife. |
| | Charles | De Gaulle | The French leader. |
| 4 | Margaret | Thatcher | The Prime Minister of the U.K. |
| | Harry | Verlander | A jed wireless operator. |
| | Tommy | Macpherson | Tom's colleague. |
| | Arthur | Brown | Tommy's radio operator. |
| | Patrice | Lumumba | The Congo Prime Minister. |
| | William | Fairbairn | Tom's self-defense instructor. |
| 5 | Aubrey | Tromifov | One of the volunteers. |
| | Bill | Colby | Head of the CIA. |
| 6 | Marissa | | Tom's cleaner. |
| 7 | Eric | Mockler-Ferryman | SOE's Director of Operation. |
| | Robert | Riviere | Tom's former colleague. |
| | John | Stoyka | A radio operator. Tom's former colleague. |
| | Jean | Millet | The SOE agent who organized safe houses in France. |
| | Sophie | | The French General's daughter. |
| 10 | Pierre | Koenig | De Gaulle's military advisor. |
| 11 | Basil | | Tom's colleague. |
| | Ligne | | The agent who setup a wireless link with London. |
| | Harry | Ree | The British Agent Cesar. |
| | Cedric | | Basil's jedburgh colleague. |
| | Brian | | Basil's jedburgh colleague. |
| | | | Part 2 |
| 4 | Theodule | | The SOE agent running the treasure circuit. Aka: Albert, Captain A.P. Townsend, Pat, Alain Jean Rene. |
| | Maurice | | Basil's jed agent. |
| | Norman | | Basil's jed agent. |
| 5 | Emile | | The SOE agent in the north. |
| | George | Millar | The SOE agent in the north. |
| | General | Patch | The leader of Operation Dragon Landings. |
| 6 | Colonel | Lagarde | Tom's colleague. |
| | Clementine | Churchill | Winston's wife. |
| 7 | James | Holland | The historian. Keggie's neighbor. |
| | | | Part 3 |
| 1 | Edna Margaret | Carew | Tom's 1st wife. Aka: Margot. |
| | El Cordobes | | Jane's favorite bullfighter. |
| 2 | Maud | Carew | Tom's mother. Keggie's grandmother. |
| | Challoner | | Maud's 1st husband. Aka: Chuty. |
| | Terrence | Miller | Tom's childhood friend. |
| | Nesta | Blennerhassett | The woman who wrote to Carew's grandfather. |
| | Hilda | Blennerhassett | Nesta's daughter. |
| | Desmon | | Maud's son. |
| | Challoner | Carew Jr. | Maud's son. Aka: Chubby. |
| | Captain | Jervis | Chuty's colleague. |
| | Cherry | | Chuty's mother. |
| | Francis | Chute | Chuty's father. |
| | Frederick | | Maud's uncle. |
| | Tomas Mac | Curtain | The Lord Mayor of Cork. |
| | Kitty | Curran | The girl at the house where Fuller was given shelter. |
| | Arthur Edward Patrick | Carew | Tom's father. Keggie's grandfather. |
| | Jeanne | | An American Heiress. Chubby's wife. |
| | Edward | O'Brien | Maud's father. |
| 3 | Mary | | Keggie's friend. |
| | Helen | O'Sullivan | Keggie's best friend. |
| | | | Part 4 |
| 1 | Aung | San | The most vocal Thakins. The Governor. |
| | Reginald | Dorman-Smith | The British Governor. |
| | Louis | Mountbatten | The post of supreme allied commander. |
| | Nyo | Tun | Aung San's close associate. |
| 2 | John | Cox | Tom's team camel colleague. |
| | Kra | Hla Aung | The ADF leader. |
| | Jack | Singlaub | An American jed. |
| 4 | Sarah | | Keggie's sister-in-law. |
| | Charles Frederick | Pearce | The head of CAS(B). |
| 6 | Colin | Mackenzie | The first surveyor general in India. |
| 7 | Andy | | Keggie's gardener. |
| | Faris | | Keggie's egyptian ex-boyfriend. |
| | Rose | Dugdale | The English rebel debutante. |
| | Eddie | Galagher | Rose's IRA boyfriend. |
| | Thomas | Carew | Arthur's father. Keggie's great-grandfather. |
| | Carlotta Emma | Harbourn | Thomas's wife. Arthur's mother. |
| | George | Carew | Thomas's brother. |
| | Edward | VIII | Carlotta's lover. |
| | Alice | Carew | Arthur's sibling. |
| | Beryl | Carew | Arthur's sibling. |
| | Miss | Sykes | Alice, Beryl, and Arthur's guardian. |
| | Molly | Long | Miss Sykes's nurse. |
| 8 | Bill | Slim | The British 14th army commander. |
| | Oliver | Leese | Commander-in-chief of the allied land forces in Southeast Asia. |
| 9 | Axel | Munthe | The author of the story of San Michele. |
| | Thein | Pe | The Thakin advisor. |
| | Than | Tun | The AFO's acting leader. |
| | Eric | Battersby | Tom's jedburgh controller. |
| 10 | Bill | Brown | Tom's colleague. |
| | Tha | Gyaw | Tom's colleague. |
| 11 | Tun | Kyaw | The Terrier's leader. |
| 12 | Pola | | Keggie's friend. |
| | Mrs. | White | Keggie's teacher. |
| | Hooky | Walker | The vice admiral. |
| 13 | Phillip | Joubert | CAS(B)'s deputy chief of staff. |
| | Mansergh | | The British General that Tom met. |
| | Cowan | | The British General that Tom met. |
| | Mike | | Cowan's son. |
| 14 | Khin | Kyi | Aung San's wife. |
| | Suu | Kyi | Aung San's daughter. |
| | T.E | Lawrence | A British Major. |
| 16 | Truman | | The current U.S. President. |
| | Clement | Attllee | The current U.K. Prime Minister. |
| 17 | Mr. | Appleton | The director of the Public Relations Department. |
| | U Saw | | The conservative premier. |
| 18 | Katie | Dicker | Keggie's friend. |
| | Molly | Dicker | Katie's mother. |
| | | | Part 5 |
| 1 | Harry | Dixon | Trieste's
intelligence corps. |
| 2 | Patricia | Highsmith | Tom's ex-lover. |
| | Ellen | Hill | Patricia's lover. |
| | Terence | | Tom's school friend. |
| | Inga | Miller | Terence's wife. |
| | Elizabeth | Woodward | A foreign office girl. Jane's workmate. |
| | Katherine | Suckling | Jane's mother. |
| | William Frederick | Suckling | Jane's grandfather. |
| | | | Part 6 |
| 1 | Bill | Suckling | Jane's elder brother. |
| | John | Suckling | Jane's youngest brother. |
| 3 | Malcolm | Muggeridge | Current
affairs T.V. presenter. |
| | Elspeth | | Desmond's wife. |
| 5 | Bradford | | Arthur's nurse. |
| | | | Part 7 |
| 1 | John | Edwards | The daily mail reporter. |
| 3 | Bill | Colby | Head of the CIA. |
| | Rikki Gilbert | Roufe | Tom's accountant at Percy Coutts. |
| 4 | Ken | | Tom's former neighbor. |
| | Ruth | | Ken's wife. |
| | Charlene | | Tom's worker. |
| | | | Part 8 |
| 1 | Michael | Aris | Suu Kyi's husband. |
| | Sein | Lwin | Head of the Butcher of Rangoon. |
| | Hla | OO | One of the protestors. |
| | Dr. Maung | Maung | Ne Win's biographer. |
| | Ne | Win | Head of state of Burma. |
| | Dr. Tin Mar | Aung | Suu Kyi's personal assistant. |
| 2 | Emma | Carew | Tim's wife. |
| | Sarah | Carew | Patrick's wife. |
| | Massoud | | The Afghan resistance commander. |
| | | | Part 9 |
| | George | Eykyn | The reporter. |
| | Phillip | Sessargo | The author of Jihad. The man who stole Tom Carew's identity. Aka: Tom Carew. |
| 2 | David | Goodchild | Tom's colleague. |
| | Peter | | Tom's dog. |
| | Bruno | Pontecorvo | A nuclear physicist. |
| | Barbara | Hailstone | Tom's 1st love. Aka: Babs. |
| | Raymond | | Babs's husband. |