Yamata. Later dies after Tennessee sinks his destroyer Mutsu with torpedoes. Seiji Nagumo: Japanese intelligence officer covered as an embassy official, who is Cook's de facto case officer. Torajiro Sato: A captain flying 747s for Japan Air Lines. His brother Yusuo and his son Major Shiro, who is an F-15 Eagle pilot, are killed in the military conflict. Embittered by his ordeal, he exacts revenge by crashing his aircraft into a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol. Other characters V. K. Chandraskatta: Fleet commander in the Indian Navy who is allied with Yamata. He is in command of the Indian carrier battle group that tries to provoke Admiral Dubro in the Indian Ocean, who are stationed there to prevent India from invading the neighboring country of Sri Lanka and annex it. Zhang Han San: Chinese career diplomat allied with Yamata George Winston: Founder of the Columbus Group, a mutual funds group. He initially sells his company to Yamata, but after the stock market crash, he retakes control of his company after an emergency board meeting, and finds out that the Japanese businessman had caused the incident. Mark Gant: Senior executive of the Columbus Group and a trusted aide to Winston Sergey Golovko: Chairman of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Major Boris Il'ych Scherenko: Deputy rezident of Station Tokyo for the SVR Oleg Lyalin: Former KGB "illegal" who is now an instructor at the Defense Language Institute, based in Presidio of Monterey, California. He tells Clark and Chavez about THISTLE, his well-placed network of agents in Japan, and how to reactivate it. Manuel "Portagee" Oreza: Former Master Chief Quartermaster for the United States Coast Guard who lives with his wife in Saipan. He feeds information about the Japanese presence in the island to the National Military Command Center (NMCC) through Admiral Jackson, and later has a reunion with Clark, whom he knew as John Kelly about twenty years ago in previous novel Without Remorse. Kimberly Norton: American national who is Goto's mistress. Clark and Chavez are sent to Japan to contact Norton and offer her a free ticket home, but she is killed by Yamata's men after Goto becomes prime minister since she is deemed to be a security risk. Barbara Linders: A former aide to Vice President Kealty who was raped by her boss three years prior Cathy Ryan: Associate professor with Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jack Ryan's