Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain of HMS Surprise
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer
- Mrs Sophie Aubrey - Jack's wife
- Mrs Diana Maturin (previously known as Diana Villiers) - Stephen's wife
- Captain Pullings - promoted to a commander in the Royal Navy
- Mrs Laura Fielding - a young, pretty Lieutenant's wife, spying for the French
- Andrew Wray - Second Secretary of the Admiralty
- Andre Lesueur - a French intelligence agent posing as a wealthy merchant on Malta
- Giuseppe - Lesueur's assistant
- Admiral Sir Francis Ives KB - Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- Admiral Harte - Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet
- Admiral Hartley - Jack's former Admiral in the West Indies
- Professor Ebenezer Graham - assigned from his university; an expert on Turkish affairs
- Lieutenant Charles Fielding - a prisoner-of-war of the French
- Captain Henry Cotton - once a midshipman with Jack and youngsters together on the Resolution
- Mr Hairabedian - a Turkish dragoman
- Ponto - Mrs Fielding's Illyrian mastiff
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“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
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The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
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