| Pete |
Alexander | New deputy. Aka: Drusan Prostakov. |
| John |
Anderson | The CIA man. |
| Ralph |
Atterbury | Retired FBI agent, victim. |
| Delia |
Beck | Beck's mother, deceased. |
| Joe |
Beck | Ex-sheriff, Beck's father. |
| Porter |
Beck | Sheriff, protagonist. |
| Mike |
Berryman | One of Beck's contacts, a colonel. |
| Hadji |
Bishara | Chief medical officer. |
| Dick |
Butkus | American football linebacker mentioned. |
| Robinson |
Crusoe | The famous fictional castaway mentioned. |
| Brinley |
Cummings | Beck's sister. |
| Dmitry |
Dudko | Freddie's father. |
| Irina |
Dudko | Freddie's mother. |
| Nadezhda |
Dudko | Freddie's sister. |
| Clem |
Edwards | Michaela's husband. |
| Michaela |
Edwards | Missing woman. |
| Mary |
Elizabeth Bauer | Beck's office manager and former teacher. |
| Katherine |
Ellison | Freddie's girlfriend. Aka: Kitty. |
| Roger |
Ellison | Kitty's father, a prominent physicist. |
| Martha |
Floyd | County clerk. |
| Jimmy |
Green | Johnny's identical twin, one of the deputies. |
| Johnny |
Green | One of Beck's deputies. |
| Tom |
Harker | Taxidermy shop owner and hunter. |
| Amon |
Jessup | Arshal's brother. |
| Arshal |
Jessup | Officer at Alamo substation. |
| Little |
Joe | Dog of Beck's father. |
| Comrade |
Khrushchev | Freddie's superior in the KGB. |
| Greg |
Knutson | Beck's contact, former reporter. Aka: X-Files. |
| Sana |
Locke | FBI special agent. |
| Freddie |
Meyer | KGB agent, protagonist in "The Past" storyline. Aka: Georgiy Dudko. |
| Jack |
Mormon | Associate mentioned in investigation. |
| Tom |
O'Hara | One of the security personnel. |
| Guy |
Pollack | Murdered. Aka: Eldon Lee Mathers. |
| Lyman |
Pollack | Guy's son. |
| Rance |
Preston | Ranch owner. |
| Anatoly |
Rudenko | Russian military commander. |
| Tuffy |
Scruggs | Beck's best deputy. |
| Frank |
Sinatra | American singer and actor mentioned. |
| Wardell |
Spann | The only lieutenant in the department. |
| Dick |
Tracy | Fictional comic-strip detective mentioned. |
| Hank |
Tyler | The judge. |
| Dr. |
Volkov | The Russian scientist. |
| Dottie |
Ward | Kitty's old friend. |
| Otto |
Weezard | Forensic pathologist. |
| Chuck |
Wolverton | One of the targets. Aka: Arnold Fletcher. |
| Maxim |
Zhilin | Russia's current president. |
| Miroslav |
Zhilin | Maxim's brother. |
| Abbott |
| One of the agents. |
| Bugsy |
| Tom's blood hunter dog. |
| Finn |
| FSI guard. |
| Hagen |
| One of Rance's grandchildren. |
| Heath |
| One of Rance's grandchildren. |
| Ivan |
| Beck's captor. |
| Jeff |
| Sana's boss. |
| Jerrold |
| Floyd's I.T. man. |
| Sally |
| Freddie's aunt. |
| Susan |
| Switchboard operator. |
| Waylon |
| One of Rance's grandchildren. |
| Willia |
| Freddie's contact. |
