Dirk Pitt – Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
Admiral James Sandecker – Chief Director of NUMA
Al Giordino – Assistant Special Projects Director for NUMA.
Rudi Gunn – Director of Logistics for NUMA.
Heidi Milligan – U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander working on her PhD. in history in her spare time. Milligan discovers the first evidence of the North American Treaty and sets the plot in motion. Heidi Milligan also appeared as a supporting character in the previous Dirk Pitt novel Vixen 03 .
Brian Shaw – Former officer from the British Secret Intelligence Service who was forced to retire when he became so well known to the Russians that he could not operate in the open without drawing attention from SMERSH assassination teams. Shaw is pulled from retirement to work against the Americans in the quest for the North American Treaty. Shaw is strongly hinted, and explicitly noticed in his last conversation with Pitt, to be James Bond living under an assumed name.
Foss Gly – An American expatriate who leads a team of assassins he terms “specialists” doing the dirty work for the radical Free Québec Society. Gly is also a master of disguise and impersonation.
Henry Villon – Liberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons and the secret head of the Free Québec Society.
Alan Mercier – United States National Security Advisor
Charles Sarveux – Newly elected Prime Minister of Canada
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