The Mediterranean Caper - Characters in "The Mediterranean Caper"

Characters in "The Mediterranean Caper"

• Captain Darius - Assistant to Colonel Zeno of the Greek gendarmerie as well as a traitor in the employ of Bruno von Till.
• Lieutenant Kurt Heibert - World War I fighter ace known as the Hawk of Macedonia. He served in Jagedestaffel 91, obtained 32 victories over the allies on the Macedonian front and was one of the outstanding aces of the Great War. He was presumed shot down and lost in the Aegean Sea on July 15, 1918.
• Captain Al Giordino Deputy Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
• Commander Rudi Gunn Captain of the NUMA research vessel First Attempt and commander of the expedition.
• Dr. Ken Knight - A brilliant Marine geophysicist assigned to the research ship First Attempt.
• Colonel Lewis - Commander of Brady Air Force Base.
• Major Dirk Pitt of the United States Air Force now seconded to The National Underwater and Marine Agency as Special Projects Director
• Admiral James Sandecker - Chief Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
• Bruno von Till - Owner and operator of the Minerva steamship line which he uses as part of a nefarious smuggling operation. Introduced as a World War I fighter pilot it is later revealed that von Till is in actuality Admiral Erich Hiebert; Commander of Nazi Germany's transportation fleet; fanatical follower of Adolf Hitler; and brother of Kurt Hiebert, the World War I ace. Hiebert was convicted in absentia by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to death for loading decrepit merchant ships with British and American prisoners of war and setting them adrift to be bombed by British and American pilots.
• Teri von Till - Niece of Bruno von Till. She is later revealed to be an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics working for inspector Zacynthus. Her real name is revealed as Amy.
• Inspector Hercules Zacynthus - Federal Bureau of Narcotics inspector who is the head of a multi-nation, multi-jurisdictional task force under the auspices of Interpol. Zacynthus is in Greece attempting to foil the smuggling operation of von Till and stop a massive shipment of heroin from reaching the United States.
• Colonel Polyclitus Anaxamander Zeno - second in command of the task force and Commander of the Greek gendarmerie, a branch of the national army.