Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain of HMS Surprise.
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and intelligence officer.
- Sir Joseph Blaine - Maturin's associate in the intelligence service, and confidant.
- Sophie Aubrey - Jack Aubrey's wife
- Mrs. Williams - Sophie's mother
- Sir William Pellow - Admiral of the West Indies Squadron
- Samuel Panda - Jack Aubrey's illegitimate black son
- Mr Martin - a Royal Navy parson
- William Mowett
- Padeen Colman
- Joe Plaice - an old able seaman on the Surprise
- Mr Palmer - gives Aubrey false information about purchasing shares
- General Aubrey - a Radical MP and Jack Aubrey's father
- Andrew and Fanny Wray
- William Babbington - Captain of the Tartarus
- Mr Pratt - a private investigator
- Mr Lawrence - Jack's defence lawyer, and a fellow Trinity College man (like Maturin)
- Parker - a Bow Street Runner hired by Blaine and Maturin to investigate Jacks case and find Palmer
- Davies - an Able Seaman on the Surprise
- Duhamel - a disillusioned French secret agent
- Heneage Dundas - Captain of the Eurydice and a close friend of Aubrey; also younger brother of Lord Melville, Head of the Admiralty
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