Stanley Johnson
KOMPROMAT
To my grandchildren
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Ronald C. Craig: Republican Presidential candidate and later US President
Brandon Matlock: US President (outgoing)
Caroline Mann: Democratic Presidential candidate
Rosie Craig: Ronald Craig’s daughter
Malvina Craig: Ronald Craig’s wife
Dirk Goddard: Attorney General
Bert Rumbold: Ronald Craig’s Campaign Director
Bud Hollingsworth: Director of the CIA
Wilbur Brown: Director of the FBI
John Hulley: CIA boffin
Jo Silcock: Attorney General
General Ian Wright: National Security Adviser
Julius Lomax: Former US Congressman
Sandra Lomax: Wife of of Julius, aide to Caroline Mann
Gina Paulson: Vixen TV
Eric Longhurst: CBS
Bill Whitelaw: Congressman
Larry Kinder: Senator
Pedro Gonzales: Federal Marshal in Florida
Jimmy Redmond: Ditto
Georgiy Reznikov: Russian Ambassador in Washington
Jack Varese: Movie star
Terry Caruthers: Co-pilot of Varese’s plane
Igor Popov: Russian President
Fyodor Stephanov: FSB St Petersburg
Yuri Yasonov: Chief aide to Russian President
Galina Aslanova: Head of Special Projects, FSB, Moscow
Pavel Golov: Galina’s boss, Director at FSB, Moscow
Lyudmila Markova: FSB, Moscow
Christine Amadore: CNN, Moscow
SWAT team
Ling and Kong: Two Chinese agents in St Petersburg
Sir Andrew Boles: UK Ambassador in Moscow
Martha Goodchild, Boles’s successor as UK Ambassador in Moscow
Jim Connally: Embassy driver in Moscow
Sergei: Driver of car in Siberia
Ivan: Head Ranger in Siberia
Two Russian ladies of the night
Helga Brun: Chancellor
Ursula Hauptman: Chancellor’s main aide
Thomas Hartkopf: State Secretary at German Ministry of the Interior
Dr Otto Friedrich: German Minister of the Interior
Liu Wang-Ji: President
Jang Ling-Go: Director of Forestry and Wildlife, Heliongjiang Province
Shao Wei-Lu (female): His Assistant
Zhang Fu-Sheng: Minister of State Security (MSS)
Li Xiao-Tong: MSS Counter-Intelligence
Professor Wong: Archaeologist (in Xian)
Professor Gung Ho-Min: in Khabarovsk Hospital
Wang Tao-Yu: Chinese Premier
Deng Biao-Su: MSS analyst
Edward Barnard: MP, Secretary of State for the Environment (DEFRA) and later Chairman of the Leave Campaign, still later Chancellor of the Exchequer
Joyce Griffith: Barnard’s P/A at DEFRA
Jeremy Hartley: MP, Prime Minister at start of book
Mabel Killick: MP, Home Secretary, Prime Minister at end of book
Melissa Barnard: Edward Barnard’s wife
Dame Jane Porter: Head of MI5
Mark Cooper: Head of MI6
James Armitage: Deputy Head of MI6
Shirley Wilson: Head of MI6 China desk
Roger Wales: Head of MI6 Russia Desk
Giles Mortimer: Mrs Killick’s joint-chief aide
Holly Percy: Mrs Killick’s other joint-chief aide
Tom Milbourne: MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer at beginning of book
Sir Oliver Holmes: Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Cornelia Gosford: Deputy Police Commissioner
Harriet Marshalclass="underline" Director of the Leave Campaign
Christine Meadows: Harriet Marshall’s partner
Harry Stokes: MP, former Mayor of London, later Foreign Secretary
Owen Griffiths: Stokes’ aide
Joshan Gupta: Employee of MI5
Jill Hepworth: Employee of MI6
Lillian Peters: Employee of FCO
Jack Kellaway: MP, former Minister for Social Affairs
David Cole: MP, Justice Minister
Andromeda Ledbury: MP, Leave leader
Eric Forster: MP, Speaker in House of Commons
Miles Pomfrey: MP, leader of the Opposition
Fred Malkin: Conservative Party Chairman
Monica Falclass="underline" MP for Blyth
George Wiley: Editor of the Sun newspaper
Louise Hitchcock: BBC journalist/broadcaster
Arthur Pemberton: President of the Oxford Union
Lord Middelbank of Upper Twaddle, Conservative Grandee
Jerry Goodman: Security aide for Edward Barnard
Mnogo Abewa: MI5 interrogator
Noel Garnett: Veteran BBC journalist
Thomas Pulborough: Conservationist
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Simon Henley: Leader of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party)
Nancy Ginsberg: BBC political correspondent
Warren Fletcher: US Ambassador in London
Gennadiy Tikhonov: Russian Ambassador in London
Nicolai Nabokov: First Sec at Russian Trade Mission, London
Mickey Selkirk: Head of Selkirk Global media empire
Melanie Selkirk: Selkirk’s wife
Ching Ze-Gong; Mrs Fung: couple who work for Selkirk at Lazy-T ranch
Hu Wong-Fu: Owner of Chinese restaurant in Kununurra
Jim Jackson: Cattleman and helicopter pilot at Lazy-T ranch
Dr Phillips: Doctor at Kununurra Hospital
Professor Cohen: Consultant at the Kununurra Hospital
Professor Irwin Jones: Australian Toxicologist
Fiona Barnard: Daughter of Edward and Melissa Barnard
Michael Kennedy: Fiona’s partner
Michael O’Rourke: President of European Commission