Characters
- Tom Nelson – An American lawyer who has been living in Peking for several years.
- Eleanor Joyce – An American museum buyer who had traveled to Peking to acquire a set of eight ancient silk scrolls depicting the landscape of China.
- Mr. Moto – a Japanese Secret Service agent.
- Prince Tung – a friend of Nelson’s, who is descended from an old Manchu family.
- Major Jamison Best – A British ex-military man who is in Peking to sell Chinese art and artifacts.
- Wu Lo Feng – A Chinese bandit chief who, for the right price, will use his army to create chaos in Peking.
- Takahara – A militant Japanese politician who wants to see Japan advance into China at a faster rate.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
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—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)