| 1 | Nathaniel | Nash | CIA 'Intel Ops' agent. |
| | Leavitt | | Nash's colleague. |
| | Volodya | Korchnoi | The KGB's Chief
Directorate. Chief of SVR. CIA double agent. AKA: Marble. |
| 2 | Ivan Dimitrevich | Egorov | The first Deputy Director in Yasenevo. AKA: Vanya. |
| | Alexei | Zyuganov | Egorov's line KR counter-intelligence chief. |
| | Vladimir | Putin | The first deputy minister. |
| | Khodorkovsky | | A Russian oligarch. |
| | Gordon | Gondorf | A line KR chief. Nate's superior. |
| | Tom | Forsyth | Gondorf's new Chief of Station in Helsinki. |
| 3 | Dominika | Egorov | Vanya's niece. A ballerina who became a Russian spy. AKA: Katia, Nadia, and Diva. |
| | Dmitri | Ustinov | A leading member of the fraternity of Gangster Russian Oil and Mining oligarch. |
| | Nina | Egorov | Dominika's mother. A concertmaster. |
| | Vassily | Egorov | Dominika's father. A famous academician professor. |
| | Galina | Ulanova | The Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi after the war. |
| | Sonya | Moroyeva | Dominika's calssmate. |
| | Konstantin | | Sonya's lover. |
| 4 | Sergey | Matorin | The executioner of SVR. |
| 6 | Mikhail | | Dominika's SVR psychology instructor. |
| | Colonel | Simyonov | Chief of Fifth Department. |
| 7 | Marty | Gable | CIA deputy chief of station. AKA: Bratok. |
| | Kurd | Kid | One of Gable's agents. |
| 8 | Anya | | Dominika's colleague in Sparrow School. |
| 9 | Simon | Delon | Dominika's first target. |
| | Cecil | Delon | Delon's daughter. |
| 10 | Maxim | Volontov | SBR resident in the Russian Embassy. Dominika's superior. |
| | Tishkov | | The ambassador's translator. |
| 11 | Jaana | Raikkonen | Gable's former spy. Marcus's wife. AKA: Veronica. |
| | Marcus | Raikkonen | Gable's former spy. AKA: Archie. |
| | Jay | | One of Nate's surveillance instructors. |
| 13 | Marta | Yelanova | Dominika's colleague. |
| | Anthony | Trunk | The assistant trade minister. |
| 19 | Elwood | Maratos | An FBI Special Agent. |
| | Simon | Benford | The counter-intelligence chief in CIA Washington. |
| 20 | Ginsburg | | CIA tech. Nate's colleague. |
| | John Paul | Bullard | A midlevel analyst in National Communication Service. |
| 21 | Colonel | Digtyar | A Ukrainian colonel. AKA: Directorate K. |
| 22 | C/ROD | | Chief of ROD. |
| 24 | Alice | Inu | Nate's new workmate. |
| | Sophie | | Alice's friend. |
| | Jennifer | Santini | A spy. |
| 25 | Carl | | Nate's hand-to-hand instructor. |
| 26 | General Anatoly | Golov | Putin's resident in Washington. |
| 27 | Stephanie | Boucher | United States senator. A mole in the SVR. AKA: Swan. |
| | Malcolm | Algernon Philips | One of the Russian spies. |
| 28 | Yuri | Nasarenko | The director of Line T. |
| | Boris | Alushevsky | The Line R chief. |
| | Dimitry | | Egorov's personal aide. |
| 29 | Pat | Benatar | The pop singer. |
| 33 | Charles | Montgomery | FBI's Chief of Bureau of the National Security Division. |
| 25 | Missy | | Boucher's third personal assistant. |
| 37 | Black | | Matorin's associate. |
| | Admiral | Nelson | The CIA Chief in Europe. |
| 42 | Lyudmila | Pavlichenko | The deadliest female sniper in history. |
