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Book cover of With a Vengeance
With a VengeanceRiley Sager

Characters in With a Vengeance

9 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Anna Matheson

    Daughter of a disgraced engineer, she charters the overnight train to force a confession from six people who ruined her family.

Supporting characters

  • Dante Wentworth

    Anna's former love and the son of her father's business rival.

  • Seamus Callahan

    The train's conductor, who helps Anna carry out her plan.

  • Jack Lapsford

    Lieutenant colonel invited aboard as one of the six people Anna holds responsible.

  • Sally Lawrence

    Anna's father's former personal secretary and one of the invited passengers.

  • Herb Pulaski

    Former manager of the train manufacturing plant and one of Anna's six guests.

  • Edith Gerhardt

    Former Matheson family housekeeper, invited aboard with the others.

  • Judd Dodge

    Designer and builder of the Philadelphia Phoenix train and one of Anna's guests.