Stanley Johnson - Kompromat

Ronald C. Craig: Republican Presidential candidate and later US President

Brandon Matlock: US President (outgoing)

Caroline Mann: Democratic Presidential candidate

Rosie Craig: Ronald Craigs daughter

Malvina Craig: Ronald Craigs wife

Dirk Goddard: Attorney General

Bert Rumbold: Ronald Craigs 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 Vareses 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: Galinas 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, Boless 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: Chancellors 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: Barnards 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 Barnards 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 Killicks joint-chief aide

Holly Percy: Mrs Killicks 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 Marshall: Director of the Leave Campaign

Christine Meadows: Harriet Marshalls 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 Fall: 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: Selkirks 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: Fionas partner

Michael ORourke: President of European Commission

Mary Burns: ORourkes Chef de Cabinet

Arne Jacobsen: Danish Prime Minister

Eloise Pomade: Senior Official in EU Council Secretariat

Lazlo Ferenczy: Prime Minister of Hungary

Jacques Petit: President of France

Martine Le Grand: French Presidential candidate

Otto von Wiensdorf: German Ambassador to EU in Brussels

Sir Luke Threadgold: UK Permanent Representative to EU

Ahmet Ergun: President

Nuray Ergun: His wife

General Aslan Bolat: Turkish Army

CIA: US Central Intelligence Agency

FBI: US Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCC: Federal Communications Commission

FCO: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

FSB: Successor agency to KGB

KGB: Main security agency for Soviet Union from 19541991

MI5: UK Counter-intelligence agency

MI6: UKs Secret Intelligence Service

MSS: Chinas Ministry of State Security

Amur tiger: crosses border into China

Helga: tiger cub presented by President Popov to Berlin Zoo

Jemima: Edward Barnards bay mare

Sydney Funnel Web Spider: Atrax Robustus

Kompromat is, to use an old-fashioned term, An Entertainment.

Although the book borrows from recent events, it is a very loose borrowing, being self-evidently a work of fiction and satire, and not a work of history an antidote to the maxim that truth is stranger than fiction. Readers of this novel should not conclude in any way that any living person misbehaved in the manner that some of the characters in the book regrettably seem to have done.