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