Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain of HMS Leopard.
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer.
- Sophie Williams - Jack's wife
- Tom Pullings - First Lieutenant on HMS Leopard
- Louisa Wogan - Prisoner on board HMS Leopard
- James Grant - Second (Later First) Lieutenant on HMS Leopard
- Michael Herapath - a stowaway and lover of Louisa Wogan. He becomes Maturin's surgical assistant.
- Sir Joseph Blaine - a senior figure in the Admiralty's espionage department, Maturin's colleague and a fellow naturalist.
- Andrew Wray - connected with the Patronage Office and the Treasury.
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