Cast of Characters

Americans

David Shirazi (aka Reza Tabrizi)—field officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Marseille Harper—childhood friend of David Shirazi; daughter of CIA operative Charlie Harper

Jack Zalinsky—senior operative, Central Intelligence Agency

Eva Fischer—field officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Roger Allen—director, Central Intelligence Agency

Tom Murray—deputy director for operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Dr. Mohammad Shirazi—cardiologist, father of David Shirazi

Nasreen Shirazi—mother of David Shirazi

William Jackson—president of the United States

Mike Bruner—Secret Service agent, assigned to President Jackson

Iranians

Dr. Alireza Birjandi—preeminent scholar of Shia Islamic eschatology

Najjar Malik—former physicist, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

Javad Nouri—senior governmental aide

Ayatollah Hamid Hosseini—Supreme Leader

Ahmed Darazi—president of Iran

Jalal Zandi—nuclear physicist

Firouz Nouri—leader of an Iranian terrorist cell

Rahim Yazidi—member of Firouz Nouri’s cell

Navid Yazidi—member of Firouz Nouri’s cell

Ali Faridzadeh—minister of defense

Mohsen Jazini—commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

Dr. Mohammed Saddaji—nuclear physicist (deceased)

Israelis

Asher Naphtali—prime minister of Israel

Levi Shimon—defense minister

Captain Avi Yaron—commander, Israeli Air Force squadron

Captain Yossi Yaron—commander, Israeli Air Force squadron

Others

Muhammad Ibn Hasan Ibn Ali—the Twelfth Imam

Tariq Khan—Pakistani nuclear physicist, working in Iran

Iskander Farooq—president of Pakistan

Abdel Mohammad Ramzy—president of Egypt