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Rather than sign on for another three years Corporal of Horse Tennant became Constable Tennant and attended the Metropolitan Police Training School at Hendon.

Theodore Kirkland (The President).

I have not given Mr Kirkland a political party affiliation. It does not really have any bearing on the story whether he is a Republican or a Democrat, he represents America in this story.

At the start of the tale the President has no affection, nor enmity either, for the military as he is just an academic who found himself in politics without actually encountering the military along the way.

I have left him as a good man but with a few flaws, because he is only human, and one who happens to be in the chair when a war starts.

Vadim Letacev (The Russian Premier).

My apology for coming up with a wholly unoriginal villain. He is Charles Dance (with his bad head on) and Vlad the Impalers more sadistic brother.

A man with no redeeming features, megalomania, a serious case of psychosis and probably halitosis too!

Lieutenant of Paratroops, Nikoli Bordenko.

“Ey, kak dela?” (“How are you doin’?”)

I had a platoon commander once who was pretty much the suave and dashing Nikoli. The Joey Tribbiani of British Airborne Forces, until injury forced a change of pace, and he came to us. I was never quite sure whether the injury was caused by landing badly after jumping out of an aircraft, or a bedroom window?

Good officer and a good soldier.

Flight Lieutenant Gerry Rich, RAAF.

Flt Lt Rich is very similar to a former double glazing salesman from Melbourne who joined my team in the 80’s. He spoke about Australian celebrities as if they were friends and neighbours. He had the gift of the gab and Paul Hogan should have charged him royalties for all the lines Neil stole. He developed into a pretty good copper too.

Anthony Carmichael.

The only Russian spook I have ever met, knowingly, wore a pinstripe suit, the regimental tie of the Hampshire Regiment and spoke English with an accent a 1950’s BBC newsreader would have been proud of.

The Cast

The Americans

Theodore Kirkland

The President

Gen Henry Shaw USMC

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

Terry Jones

Director CIA

Joseph Levi

CSA, Chief Science Advisor

Art Petrucci

CIA Chief of Station, London

Max Reynolds

CIA Langley

Scott Tafler

CIA Langley

Alicia O’Connor

Computer game programmer

Ben Dupre

Director FBI

Dr David Bowman

USS Commanche

Admiral C Dalton

USS John F Kennedy

Admiral Conrad Mann

USS Gerald Ford

Admiral Lucas Bagshaw

USS Nimitz

Captain Joe Hart

USS Commanche

Captain Rick Pitt

USS Twin Towers

Commander Kenny Willis

USS Nimitz

Lt Cmdr. Natalie Shaw

USS Orange County

Lt Col Matthew Shaw

USS Bonhomme Richard

Lt Nikki Pelham USN

USS John F Kennedy & USS Nimitz

Lt (jg) Candice LaRue

USS Nimitz

Col Omar Chandler

USAF

Major Caroline Nunro

USAF

Captain Patricia Dudley

USAF

Major Glenn Morton

USAF

Lt Col ‘Jaz’ Redruff

USAF, AC Air Force One

Major Sara Pebanet

USAF, Co-pilot Air Force One

Sgt Nancy Palo

USAF Air Force One

Major Jim Popham

82nd Airborne

Lt Col Arndeker

USAF

Captain Garfield Brooks

Green Berets

Senator Walt Rickham

US Senate

General ‘Duke’ Thackery

5th US Mechanised Bde

RSM Arnie Moore

82nd Airborne

Captain Daniel King

Black Horse Cavalry

Master Sergeant Bart Kopak

Black Horse Cavalry

The French

Admiral Maurice Bernard

Charles De Gaulle

Admiral Albert Venesioux

Jeanne d’Arc, ASW Group

Lt Arnoud Bertille

21e Régiment d'Infanterie de Marine

The Filipinos

Colonel Villiarin

Cebu guerrilla forces

Sergeant ‘Bat’ Ramos

Philippines National Police

The Russians

Vadim Letacev

Premier

Admiral Pyotr Petorim

Red Fleet

Marshal Gorgy Ortan

Army Group West

General of Aviation Arkity Sudukov

Air Force

General Tomokovsky

Army Group West

Svetlana Vorsoff

KGB ‘Sleeper’

Anatoly Peridenko

1st Chairmen of reformed KGB

Elena Torneski

2nd Chairman of KGB

Alexandra Berria

KGB stringer

Col Gen Serge Alontov

6th Guards Airborne

Lt Nikoli Bordenko

6th Guards Airborne

Major Constantine Bedonavich

Deputy Military Attaché, London

Vice Admiral Karl Putchev

Mao

The Australians

Perry Letteridge

Prime Minister

Gen Norris Monroe

1st Brigade

Cmdr. Reg Hollis

HMAS Hooper

LS Craig Devonshire

HMAS Hooper

AB Philip Daly

HMAS Hooper

AB Stephanie Priestly

HMAS Hooper