Characters in Red Rabbit

Jack Ryan

CIA analyst serving as liaison to British intelligence in London, who helps bring the defector out.

Also in The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears, Executive orders, The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy, Commander-in-Chief, Rainbow Six

Boris Strokov

Bulgarian state security officer tasked with carrying out the assassination.

Yuri Andropov

KGB chairman who orders the plot against the Pope.

Basil Charleston

Head of British intelligence, who cooperates with the CIA on the operation.

Oleg Zaitzev

KGB communications officer who learns of the plot against the Pope and offers to defect to the CIA.

Mary Pat Foley

CIA case officer in Moscow who handles the contact with the defector.

Ed Foley

CIA chief of station in Moscow, working with MI6 on the extraction.

Admiral James Greer

Senior CIA intelligence official and Ryan's mentor.

Also in The Hunt for Red October

John Paul II

The real-life Pope, whose support for Solidarity makes him the target.