Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain.
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and intelligence officer.
- Sophie Aubrey - Jack's wife.
- Mrs. Williams - Sophie's mother.
- Diana Villiers - Stephen's love interest, who becomes his wife.
- Miss Amanda Smith - Jack's paramour in Nova Scotia.
- Gedymin Jagiello - a young Lithuanian cavalry officer, seconded to the Admiralty from the Swedish service.
- Sir Joseph Blaine - senior figure at the Admiralty and Maturin's spymaster.
- William Babbington - Jack's former lieutenant and captain of the Oedipus.
- Ramon d'Ullastret i Casademon - a Catalan colonel and Stephen Maturin's godfather.
- Admiral Sir James Saumarez - Admiral of the Baltic Fleet at Carlscrona.
- Monsieur Duhamel - a French secret agent.
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