Characters
Reggie Love: A female lawyer who has been practicing for five years. Her original name is Regina Cardoni who divorced with her husband. She was a former alcoholic. She is an older woman in the novel, but the movie incarnation played by Susan Sarandon is slightly younger.
Barry Muldanno: Mafia member who is accused of killing a senator. A cold-blooded man, he plans on killing eleven-year old Mark.
Roy Foltrigg: US government lawyer whose job is to prove that Barry Muldanno killed the senator. He tries everything to make Mark talk and at the end he proposes to take Mark to court in New Orleans where he was sure that they could make him talk. He is the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Louisiana.
Slick Moeller: A crime reporter who works on the Memphis Press. His real name is actually Alfred but nobody in the book knows this. He never names a person who trusted him with information and he knows everything about every crime committed, even before the cops.
Paul Gronke: A close associate of Barry Muldanno. He is a tough thug, but not a killer like Barry Muldanno.
Mac Bono: A close associate of the Sulari family. He is a convicted murderer and participates in the search for Mark Sway.
Gary Pirini: A close associate of the Sulari family. He participates in the search for Mark Sway.
Jack Nance and Calvin "Cal" Sisson: So-called "security specialists", they are actually thugs who do dirty work for the people who pay them. They are hired by Paul Gronke to help them for the search of Mark Sway.
Thomas Fink: An assistant US attorney of the southern district of Louisiana. He argued a case before the Tennessee juvenile court to have Mark placed on the juvenile detention center.
George Ord: US attorney for the western district of Tennessee. He helped Thomas Fink argue the case to have Mark placed on the juvenile detention center.
Dr. Greenway: The doctor that attempts to cure Ricky of his coma.
Clint Van Hooser: Secretary to Reggie Love, he was a former drug consumer.
Harry Roosevelt: The judge of the Tennessee youth court. He tries to protect children since he was a neglected child himself when he was a boy.
Johnny Sulari: Boss of the Sulari family. An aging gangster, yet rules with an iron fist. Uncle of Barry Muldanno
Jerome Clifford: A very important lawyer. His client was Barry Muldano. He committed suicide in the beginning.
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