position of authority in Tabriz. Nitchak Khan - Qashqai Kalandar of Yazdek village in Zagros neighborhood. Hussain Kowissi - mullah, town of Kowiss. Ibrahim Kyabi - university student-turned-leftist. Nathaniel "Nogger" Lane - helicopter pilot based at Tehran Sharazad (Bakravan) Lochart - Iranian wife of Tom Lochart. ۞Tom Lochart - Canadian senior helicopter pilot based at Zagros Three, husband of Sharazad. ۞Rudiger "Rudi" Lutz - German senior helicopter pilot based at Bandar Delam ۞Duncan MacIver - medically grounded senior helicopter pilot, managing director of S-G Helicopter operations office in Teheran, appeared in earlier Noble House. Genevere "Genny" McIver - wife of Duncan MacIver Captain Karim Peshadi - Imperial Iranian Air Force, cousin of Sharazad, Shah-loyalist military commander of Kowiss Air Base, Hero of Dhofar and uncle of Sharazad, possibly based on Nader Jahanbani. Sandor "Sandy" Petrofi - Hungarian American helicopter pilot based at Kowiss. Charlie Pettikin - helicopter pilot based at Tehran, Vietnam vet with Duke Starke. Fedor Rakoczy - alias Dimitri Yazernov/alias Ali Bin Hassan Karakose/real name Igor Mzytryk, KGB agitator, son of Petr Oleg Mzytryk. John Ross - Gurkha captain sent to destroy abandoned CIA listening posts. ۞Harry "Scrag" Scragger, DFC and bar, AFC and bar. - oldest S-G pilot, senior helicopter pilot based at Lengeh, Jean-Luc Sessonne - French helicopter pilot based at Zagros Three. ۞Conroe "Duke" Starke - American senior helicopter pilot based at Kowiss, Vietnam vet with Charlie Pettikin. Manuela Starke - wife of "Duke" Starke George Talbot - United Kingdom Embassy Tehran MI6 Station Chief. General Valik - chairman of IHC (Iran Helicopters Company, enforced partners of S-G Helicopters) and uncle of Sharazad. Sergeant Wazari - Iranian air traffic control based at Kowiss. Azadeh (Gorgon) Yokkonen - Iranian wife of Erikki Yokkonen. ۞Erikki Yokkonen - Finnish helicopter pilot based at Tabriz. Zataki - leader of Kowiss komiteh (Islamic Revolution Committee). ۞ indicates leader of respective base Minor characters Ali Abbasi - Iranian helicopter pilot of General Valik. General Hassan Aryani - Imperial Iranian Air Force, killed in a hang-gliding accident in 1975; based on HE General Mohammad Amir Khatami, CVO (1920–1975), Chief of Staff of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who served as Chief Pilot to the Shah and was married to one of his sisters, HIH Fatimeh Pahlavi (1928–1987) Jared Bakravan - father of Sharazad. Sheik Bayazid - tribal leader, kidnapper of Erikki Yokkonen. General Beni-Hassan - national IranOil liaison. Sayada Bertolin - mistress