Ice Station (novel) - Characters

Characters

This is a list of Schofield's Marines:

• Buck 'Book' Riley - Schofield's close friend who also led Scarecrow's rescue mission in Bosnia, fed to killer whales by Brigadier Trevor Barnaby of the Her Majesty's Special Air Service who had never previously failed a mission.
• Robert 'Rebound' Simmons - A young marine, the teams abseiler, he escapes the Ice Station with the remaining scientists to McMurdo Ice Station.
• Gunnery Sergeant Scott 'Snake' Kaplan - A member of the Intelligence Convergence Group (ICG) along with Montana. Snake, an experienced soldier, betrays the team early in the book and is later killed by Schofield.
• Oliver 'Hollywood' Todd - Hollywood is killed by a fragmentation grenade.
• Lance Corporal Elizabeth 'Fox' Gant - A young female corporal, Gant is one of the few survivors.
• Augustine 'Samurai' Lau - At the start of the book, Samurai is mortally injured by the French, and later is suffocated by Snake while in a coma.
• Mitch 'Ratman' Healy - Killed by the French early in the book.
• Georgio 'Legs' Lane - Team's medic, killed by the French then eaten by killer whales.
• Gena 'Mother' Newman - An older female soldier, Mother survives but loses a leg to a killer whale.
• Morgan 'Montana' Lee - An ICG member along with Snake
• Jose 'Santa' Cruz - Killed by Montana by stabbing him through the ear into his brain.

List of other characters;

• Sarah Hensleigh (née Parker) - Scientist, member of the ICG (revealed late in the book) killed by Gant.
• James Renshaw - Scientist at the station, survives and aids Schofield's escape from the station, and his return and taking back of the station.
• Trevor Barnaby - Brigadier of the Special Air Service who has never failed a mission. Killed by Shofield when he shoots out one of the windows of the diving bell, causing the diving bell to implode and crush Barnaby.