Iceberg (novel) - Characters in "Iceberg"

Characters in "Iceberg"

• Sergeant Sam Cashman - United States Air Force mechanic who also moonlights as a mechanic for civilian aircraft. Cashman is also the only one on Iceland qualified to fly the Ford tri-motor used for the rescue attempt.
• Pablo Castile - President of the Dominican Republic.
• Juan De Croix - Leader of the People's Progressive Party new president of French Guiana.
• Roger Dupuy - French millionaire whose disappearance, along with a group of others, is intended to distract the world from Hermit Limited's plot.
• Kirsti Fyrie - Introduced as the twin sister to Kristjan Fyrie who until recently had been a missionary in New Guinea. She is in fact Kristjan Fyrie who underwent sex reassignment surgery.
• Kristjan Fyrie - Described as a genius, adventurer, scientist, legend, and the 10th richest man in the world before he was 25. A native of Reykjavík, Iceland he made his fortune mining diamonds from the seafloor off the shores of Africa. Following his success with diamonds continued two amass wealth by mining manganese and exploring for oil on the ocean floor. Fyrie disappeared along with the entire crew out of his yacht while sailing to United States and is believed dead.
• Hans von Hummel -German millionaire and member of Hermit Limited .
• Dr. Bill Hunnewell - Director of the California Institute of Oceanography affiliated with The National Underwater and Marine Agency. Dr. Hunnewell is the co-inventor of the top-secret, groundbreaking undersea mineral probe and a key member of Hermit Limited.
• Dr. Jonsson - An Icelandic doctor who treated Pitt after his helicopter crash and helped him escape from the imposter policeman who came to kill him by Hermit Limited.
• F. James Kelly - American billionaire and philanthropist who conceived of the plot to take over South and Central America in an effort to create a modern Utopia and calls together a group of like-minded fellow millionaires and billionaires and forms Hermit Limited.
• Sam Kelly-brother of James sacrificed in order to make the event of the deaths of the others appear more realistic.
• Dean Kippmann - Chief of the National Intelligence Agency.
• Lt. Commander Lee Koski - Captain of the Coast Guard Cutter Catawaba which Dirk Pitt commandeers to aid in his search for the vessel in the iceberg.
• Jerome P. Lillie IV - Undercover agent of the National Intelligence Agency who is acting as Dirk's contact while he's in Iceland.
• Dan Lazard - Head of Disneyland security.
• Ibian Mahani - Iranian millionaire who along with a group of others is adducted as part of the plan to distract the world while Hermit Limited conducts its plot.
• Sir Eric Marks - British billionaire and member of Hermit Limited.
• Major Dirk Pitt - Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
• Oskar Rondheim - Introduced as the fiancée of Kirsti Fyrie, he owns and international chain of canneries, Rondheim Industries. Rondheim's fleet of blue fishing boats flies a red flag with an albatross, his personal symbol, and are notorious for wiping out fishing grounds by over-fishing them almost to the verge of extinction, robbing the nets of other fishermen, and fishing in the territorial boundaries of other countries. It is later revealed that he is in actuality Carzo Butera, a well-known criminal with several aliases who is not motivated by the need to create a utopia but rather by the need to amass power. As the head of Hermit Limited's assassination department he has the means to exert his control over the rest of the group.
• Tidi Royal - Private Secretary to Admiral James Sandecker. Tidi is a very attractive woman who is more than a little attracted to Dirk but to Pitt she is strictly off limits as he has too much respect for the Admiral to dally with his secretary, much to her disappointment.
• Admiral James Sandecker - Chief Director of The National Underwater and Marine Agency
• Comrade Tamarectov - Russian diplomat kidnapped as part of the distraction plot by Hermit Limited.
• Dr. Jesus Ybarra - The surgeon who performed the sex reassignment surgery on Kristjan Fyrie and is also a member of Hermit Limited.