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The HuntressKate Quinn

Characters in The Huntress

7 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Nina Markova

    A Siberian-born pilot who flew with the Soviet Night Witches bomber regiment and is the only person known to have escaped the Huntress alive.

  • Ian Graham

    A British former war correspondent who, after covering Omaha Beach and the Nuremberg trials, runs a small operation hunting Nazi war criminals.

  • Jordan McBride

    A seventeen-year-old aspiring photographer in postwar Boston who grows uneasy about her widowed father's new wife.

Antagonists

  • Anneliese Weber

    A poised Austrian widow who marries Jordan's father in Boston and says little about her life during the war.

Supporting characters

  • Tony Rodomovsky

    An American polyglot who partners with Ian in the Nazi-hunting operation, driven by the loss of his Jewish relatives.

  • Dan McBride

    Jordan's widowed father, a Boston antiques dealer who believes his new wife's account of her wartime past.

  • Ruth (The Huntress)

    Anneliese's four-year-old daughter, who comes with her mother into the McBride household in Boston.