Characters
- Mitchell Gant – American fighter pilot and spy, protagonist
- Kenneth Aubrey – British spy master
- Colonel Kontarsky – Soviet head of counterintelligence at the Bilyarsk air base
- Dmitri Priabin – Soviet intelligence officer serving under Colonel Kontarsky at the Bilyarsk air base.
- Peter Shelly – British agent
- Charles Buckholtz – American agent with the CIA
- General Med Vladimirov – Soviet Air Force commandant of the "Wolfpack" tasked with stopping Gant.
- Air Marshal Mihail Ilyich Kutuzov – Soviet Air Force chief
- Yuri Andropov – Head of the KGB (as he was when the novel was written in the mid-1970s)
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