(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Former Israeli Mossad Agent; one of the best art restorers in the world. Leah: Gabriel's wife. Timothy Peel: Eleven-year-old boy who lives near Gabriel in Cornwall. Derek: Peel's mother's lover, a struggling playwright. Emily Parker: American staying in Paris for a few months since graduating. Leila Khalifa: Student at the Sorbonne, Paris; befriends Emily. Zev Eliyahu: Israeli Ambassador to France (Paris). Hannah Eliyahu: Ambassador Eliyahu's wife. Moshe Savir: Charge d'affaires, Israeli embassy, Paris. Ari Shamron: Spymaster; head of Israeli Intelligence, brought out of retirement 6 months previously. Rami: Young head of Shamron's personal security detail. Esther: Shamron's secretary. Eli Lavon: Member of Shamron's senior staff; Planning section. Mordecai: Member of Shamron's senior staff; the service's executive officer. Lev: Member of Shamron's senior staff; chief of Operations. Yossi: Member of Shamron's senior staff; on the Europe Desk. Uzi Navot: Head of Shamron's Paris Station. Bella: Uzi Navot's lover; writer and historian; occasional consultant to Israeli Intelligence. Shimon: On Shamron's Research team. Tariq al-Hourani (aka Lucien Daveau, Emilio Gonzales): Formerly PLO before leaving to form his own small, tightly knit terror group. Achmed Natour: Messenger from Kemel to Tariq. Kemel Azouri: Chief of sales division, Schloss Pharmaceuticals, Zurich. Margarite: Kemel's secretary at Schloss Pharmaceuticals. Mohammed Azziz: Former Popular Front member before joining Tariq's organisation. Julian Isherwood: London art dealer; Israeli Intelligence 'helper'. Heather: Julian's assistant. Benjamin Stone: Owner of an international publishing conglomerate; lives in London; Israeli Intelligence 'helper'. Oliver Dimbleby: London art dealer; close competitor of Julian's. Penelope: Assistant in a London art-supply shop. Jacqueline Delacroix: 33-year-old French fashion model. (Birth name Sarah Halevy.) Marcel Lambert: Jacqueline's agent. Michel Duval: French fashion photographer, (Paris). Robert Leboucher: Fashion editor. Fiona Barrows: Manager of an old block of flats in London. Yusef al-Tawfiki: UK-based terrorist reporting to Tariq. Poet; part-time student (London); part-time waiter. Inge van der Hoff: Amsterdam barmaid; drug addict. Randall Karp: American surveillance operative; specialist in listening devices. David Morgenthau: American multi-millionaire; on holiday in Amsterdam; Zionist supporter. Cynthia Morgenthau: David's wife; interior designer Adrian Carter: CIA executive director. Zvi Yadin: Israeli agent at the Ottawa Station; knows Gabriel from their time at the Academy together. James Beckwith: President of the United States. Yasir Arafat: President of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation). Douglas Cannon: Former Senator from NY, Palestinian sympathizer. Anne-Marie Delacroix: French woman who saved Isaac Halevy's life when he was a baby, and then raised him. Maurice Halévy: Jacqueline's grandfather. Rachel Halévy: Jacqueline's grandmother. Isaac Halévy: Jacqueline's father. Mahmoud al-Hourani: Tariq's older brother, ( dec'd). (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Art restorer and occasional Israeli agent. Leah Savir: Gabriel's first wife. Ari Shamron: Former head of Israeli intelligence. Rami: Shamron's bodyguard. Anna Rolfe: Renowned Swiss concert violinist; daughter of Augustus Rolfe Werner Muller: Art dealer and consultant based in Paris Gerhardt Peterson: Division of Analysis and Protection officer in Zurich, Switzerland Otto Gessler: Extremely secretive Swiss banking magnate and industrialist Anton Orsati: Corsican olive-oil producer and mob boss Christopher Keller: Mysterious, British-born assassin Henri Guisan Signore Aldo Rossetti Augustus Rolfe: Swiss Banker and owner of many paintings by masters Schultzie Heinrich Himmler Don Tomasi Senhor Manuel Herr Alois Ritter Zaccaria Cordoni Herr Becker Adolf Hitler Moshe Oded Felipe Navarra Tartini Motzkin Deborah Baer Agostino Chigi Eva Umberto Conti Saeb Irina Carlos Mordecai Uzi Navot Walter Schellenberg Werner Müller Hermann Göring Ali Abdel Hamidi Rogier van der Weyden Raphael Paul Rosenberg Marguerite Rolfe Don Casabianca Oliver Dimbleby Elizabeth Conlin Ilana Signore Brunetti Herr Ulbricht Douglas Cooper Jonathan Emil Jacobi Pablo Picasso Herr Meyer Yitzhak Marco Eli Lavon Hannah Landau Tariq al-Hourani Dani Castillo Monsieur Michel Dumont Aragón María Shimon Fiona Richardson Julian Isherwood Pascal Debré (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Art restorer by trade, assassin for Israeli secret service out of duty. Pope Paul VII: Newly elected, "Pope Accidental" begins life as Head of The Catholic Church with the weight of the world, and a people, on his back. Marco Brindisi: Cardinal Secretary Head of State . Second in Command at the Vatican, but he has higher aspirations. Member of Crux Vera. Ari Shamron: Former Head of Israeli intelligence. Carlo Castagrande: Head of a secret Vatican Security Office. A retired Italian General. Member of Crux Vera. Roberto Pucci: Wealthy Italian businessman. Member of The Crux Vera. Eric Lange: Professional Assassin known as "The Leopard." Benjamin Stern: Former colleague of Gabriel, now a Professor in Germany Holiness: Pope Paul VII (Pietro Lucchesi) Father Beck Katrine Boussard Shimon Pazner Frau Ratzinger Axel Weiss Cesare Felici Thomas à Becket Father Mascone Umberto Conti Heinrich Siedler Peter Malone Alessio Rossi Ehud Landau Monsignor Manzini Sebastiano Lorenzi Rashid Husseini Abu Jihad Mother Vincenza Beni Anna Rolfe Eli Lavon Chiara Zolli Yossi Mordechai Vanunu Achille Bartoletti Antonella Huber Allon Monsignor Rodriguez Sister Teresa Heydrich Karl Brunner Antonio Politi Madame Carcassi Regina Carcassi Don Pucci Leopard Bishop Lorenzi Francesco Tiepolo Herr Becker Adolf Eichmann Carlo Casagrande Giovanna Rudolf Gertz Dr. Helmut Berger Martin Luther Herr Doktorprofessor Stern Adriana Zinetti Ephraim Ben-Avraham Benedetto Foà Pietro Lucchesi Leah Abu Malone Father Luigi Donati Licio Marwan Aziz Mario Delvecchio Joachim von Ribbentrop (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Office Agent Uzi Navot: Office Agent in Italy Eli Lavon: Office Agent in Vienna. Chiara Zolli: Office Agent and Gabriel's love interest Ari Shamron: Former head of the Office, still Gabriel's boss Gilah Shamron: Ari's Wife Erich Wilhelm Radek: Terrorist. Peter Metzler: far-right candidate for Austrian chancellor The Clockmaker: Vienna-based assassin Max Klein: Holocaust survivor living in Vienna Tariq al-Hourani Karl Mordecai Theodor Drexler Juan Perón Titian Renate Hoffmann: Contact discovered in Vienna that provided some documents Oded Leah: Gabriel's wife/former wife seriously injured by a car bomb in Vienna Alfonso Ramirez Chela Ludwig Vogel: aka Pius XII: A previous pope Heinrich Müller: Nazi Adolf Eichmann: Nazi Sarah Greenberg: Killed by a bomb Herr Sturmbannführer: Nazi title (not a name) George Fischer Taube Reveka Gazit René Duran: aka of Gabriel Allon while in Argentina Marguerite Reichsführer Metzler Francesco Tiepolo: Supervising artist in Italy Signor Mondiani Herr Konrad Becker Luigi Donati: Right hand man of the pope Rachel Zvi Moshe Rivlin Belov Franz Stangl: Escaped Nazi Kamal Amin Thabit Gustavo Estrada Herr Zigerli Irene Frankel: Gabbriel's mother Stalin: Leader during WWII in USSR Helmut Schneider Martin Luther Bruce Crawford Reinhard Gehlen Enrique Calderon Brad Cantwell: aka of CIA member Aloïs Brunner Monica Radek: Radek's secret wife Gideon Argov Umberto Conti Klaus Halder Herr Keppelmann Mengele: Nazi Lene Ben-Avraham Antonio Politi Shimon Pazner Giovanni Bellini Adrian Carter: CIA contact Tziona Levin: Mother-figure to Gabriel Herr Rudolf Heller Erich Priebke Manfred Kruz: Statzpollizi higher-up that uses the Vienna police to protect Vogel Zalman Heinrich Gross Viktor Frankel Dieter Graff Aloïs Hudal Dani Herr Oskar Lange: aka borrowed from a legitimate businessman to gain access to Vogel Shelby Somerset Weller Elena Adrianna Zinetti Regina Paul VII Adolf Hitler: Head Nazi Bolshevik-Jewish Father Morales: Contact found in German settlement in Argentina Shmuel Rubenstein Mario Delvecchio: former/blown cover of Gabriel (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Office Agent- Assasin Eli Lavon: Office Agent / Archeologist Uzi Navot: Head of Special Operations Ari Shamron: Former Head of the Office, now advisor Chiara: Office Agent Khaled Al-khalifa: Terrorist. Yaakov: On Gabriel's team Monsieur Martineau: Fake name of Kaleed. Yasir Arafat: Head of the PLO Leah: Gabriel's wife Sheikh Asad al-Khalifa: Kaleed's grandfather. Dina Sarid: On Gabriel's team Julian Isherwood: London Fine Art Dealer. Herr Klemp: Gabriel's cover name. Ari Shamron: The hardened Israeli warrior. He essentially started the Israeli secret service. Erich Radek: A Nazi war criminal who escapes the clutches of justice by wiggling his way through borders with the Pope's help. Umberto Conti: Painter who trained Gabriel. Gilah Shamron Mimi Ferrere Kemel Yossi David Ben-Gurion Hamzah al-Samara Dani David Quinnell Rami Abu Saddiq Yitzhak Rabin Bashir Wadal Abdel Zwaiter Tamara Leonard Avery Monsieur Paul Véran Fellah al-Tamari Yonatan Shamron Jeremy Crabbe Jibril Abu Jihad Zev Natan Hofi Haj Amin al-Husseini Tayyib Abu Fareed Monsieur Laval Martino Bellano Hamid Daoud Hadawi Palestina Shimon Pazner Sabri al-Khalifa Nabil Azouri Shabak Amira Assaf Moshe Yariv Dr. Paul Martineau Rima Zubair Mr. Katubi Monsieur Jean-Luc Rimona Madeleine Francesco Tiepolo Yvette Debré Mahmoud Arwish Solomon Denise Mordecai Bar-Zvi Lev Ahroni Hussein (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Office agent, assassin and master art restorer Sarah Bancroft: Office's recent recruit with a Ph.D from Harvard in art Abdul Aziz al-Bakari: AKA Zizi and president,chairman of AAB Holdings, banker to the worlds criminals. Adrian Carter: Deputy director for operations of the CIA Eli Lavon: Retired Office agent, Archeologist, and surveillance artist Julian Isherwood: Gallery owner in London and a volunteer Jewish helper for the Office Luigi Donati: Private secretary to Pope Paul VII Jean-Michel: The French boxer, Zizi's personal trainer and auxiliary bodyguard Alain al-Nasser: Lebanese venture capitalist working for Zizi Vincent Van Gogh: Impressionist painter. Ahmed bin Shafiq: Saudi posing as an official of the International Islamic Relief Organization. In reality, chief of a clandestine GID, General Intelligence Department. Chiara: Office Agent and Gabriel Allon's love interest Ari Shamron: Former head of the Office, now special adviser to the Israeli prime minister on all matters dealing with security and intelligence Wazir bin Talal: The omnipresent chief of AAB security Gilah Shamron: Ari Shamron's wife Yossi: Office Agent, part of Group bin Shafiq Prince Nabil: The Saudi interior minister Dina Sarid: Office Agent, part of Group bin Shafiq Rimona: Office Agent, part of Group bin Shafiq Yaakov: Office Agent, part of Group bin Shafiq Mikhail: A gunman on loan to the Office from the Sayeret Matkal. Part of Gabriel's team. Muhammad Abdul Wahhab: Professional interrogator for Group 205 Ali Massoudi: Graduate professor of global governance and social theory at the University of Bremen Andrew Malone: Exclusive art adviser to Zizi al-Bakari Uzi Navot: In the lexicon of the Office, he was a katsa, an undercover field operative and case officer Amos Sharrett: New director-general of the Office Marguerite Gachet: Dr. Paul Gachet' daughter and posing for Vincent Van Gogh Oliver Dimbleby: Isherwood's tubby nemesis from King Street Monique: Jean-Michel's wife Pope Paul VII: Bishop of Rome, Pontifex Maximus Hannah Weinberg: Owner of the "Marguerite Gachet at Her Dressing Table" Ibrahim el-Banna: Professor of Islamic jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University in Cairo Herr Manfred Wehrli: The Swiss banker who handles Zizi's money Leah Allon: Gabriel Allon's wife Lance Corporal Erich Müller: The Swiss Guard Luca Angelli: Ex-carabiniere assigned to help Gabriel Allon Sophie al-Nasser: Alain al-Nasser's wife Karl Brunner: Colonel, the Swiss Guard commandant Nadia al-Bakari: Zizi's daughter Shepard Cantwell: Deputy director of the CIA Gustav Schmidt: Chief of counter-terrorism for the Swiss federal security service Hassan Rafiq al-Kamal Hamida al-Tatari Irene Viktor Frankel Mordecai Miss Archer Rami Johanna Baker Ben Callahan Herr Klarsfeld Mansur Isaac Weinberg Penelope Pietro Lucchesi Oded Saul Boulevard Khalil Odette Madame al-Nasser Rahimah Hamza Golda Meir Jeremy Crabbe Denise Mario Delvecchio Elena Farnese Peter Paul Rubens Khaled al-Khalifa Paul Gachet Theo van Gogh Morito Watanabe Yasir Arafat Prince Bashir Ronit Sayyid Yonatan Alexandra Étienne Bignou Daoud Hamza Jafar Sharuki Tanya Moshe Francesco Tiepolo (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: protagonist - an Israeli who fights terrorism, secret agent Professor Solomon Rosner Dr. Yusuf Ramadan Samir al-Masri Stephen Barnes Amos Prince Rashid bin Sultan al-Saud Chris Petty Mahmoud Aburish Eli Lavon John O'Donnell Lars Mortensen Shimon Pazner Osama bin Laden Gilah Shamron Robert Carlyle Halton Jihan Sheikh Tayyib Abdul-Razzaq Adrian Carter Elizabeth Halton Ahmed Fawaz Herr Rudolf Heller Jack Hammond Melissa Stewart Mikhail Marcia Cromwell Nicholas Scanlon Lawrence Strauss Chiara Zolli Hussein Mandali Sophie Vanderhaus Herr Johannes Klemp Nasser Sarah Bancroft Graham Seymour Cain Sheikh Abdullah Abdul-Razzaq Abel Shepard Cantwell Mr. Hamilton Muhammad Hamza Yossi Uzi Navot SARAH BAN-CROFT Hanifah Ishaq Fawaz Wazir al-Zayyat Mr. Katubi Kevin Barnett Heinrich Kiever Dani Hosni Mubarak Nabil Elbadry Abraham Bella Yaakov Mordecai Rimona Stern Dina Sarid Anwar Sadat Leah Abu Musa Dr. Ibrahim Fawaz Cyrus Mansfield Oliver Gibbons Oded (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Israeli agent who is also an artist Chiara: Gabriel's wife and fellow Office Agent Uzi Navot: Chief of Office Special Operations Ivan Borisovich Kharkov: Arms dealer Elena Kharkov: Ivan's wife Ari Shamron: The former head of the Office, Gabriel's boss. Eli Lavon: An Office Agent Caravaggio Margherita Natan Golani: Gabriel Allon's alias as he travels to Moscow to meet with Olga. Yaakov Rossman Marwan Abbas Yekatarina Mazurov Svetlana Federov Lillian Devlin Markov Ricardo Jonathan Owens Signore Alessio Vianelli Charles Hamilton Arkady Medvedev Dmitri Sukhova Natasha Feliks Count Gasparri Stechkin Graham Seymour Alistair Leach Mary Cassatt Ispettore Mateo Cassani Adolf Eichmann Sarah Crawford Boris Ostrovsky Julian Isherwood Abigail Nikolai Pavel Anton Ulyanov Igor Irina Chernova Dina Sarid John Boothby Adrian Carter Isabella Pyotr Luzhkov Leonid Brezhnev Gennady Aleksandr Viktorovich Lubin Judy Monsieur Laffont Rosemary Gibbons Monsieur Boisson Olga Sukhova Jean-Luc Lenin Nigel Whitcombe Saul Boulevard Philippe Luigi Donati Sonia Cherkasov Amos Sharret Shmuel Peled Oleg Anna Karenina Pius XII Carlos Mikhail Abramov Sarah Bancroft Grigori Bulganov Michael Danilov Abraham Lars Mortensen Sergei Degas Francesca George Merrywood Oliver Dimbleby Luka Osipov Tatyana Oxana Stalin Gilah Bella (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: art restorer. Chiara Zolli: Gabriel's wife and agent of the Office Elena Kharkov: Estranged wife of arms dealer. She now lives in the US in hiding Grigori Nikolaevich Bulganov: Russian Defector Ivan Borisovich Kharkov: Russian arms dealer Uzi Navot: Chief of Office Special Operations Ari Shamron: Former head of the Office Eli Lavon: Office Agent Yekaterina Mazurov: Ivan Borisovich Kharkov's second wife who had been his mistress Anton Dmitrievich Petrov Nikolai Kharkov Yekaterina Kharkov Olga Sukhova Vadim Strelkin Dina Pyotr Luzhkov Alexei Budanov Clive Atherton Mad Maxim Mikhail Abramov Oleg Rudenko Leah Motti Mr. al-Hamdali Anna Ludmila Akulova Aaron Davis Julian Isherwood Rami Shmuel Peled Gilah Shamron Yaakov Anatoly Oskar Lange Leonid Milchenko Oded Herr Otto Wolfe Tretyakov Graham Seymour Sergei Korovin Simon Finch Zizi al-Bakari Miss Irene Moore Sarah Bancroft Rimona Konrad Becker Vladimir Chernov Amos Sharret Alexander Litvinenko Comrade Zhirlov Yossi Margherita Stalin Herr Heinrich Kiever Irina Iosifovna Bulganova Viktor Orlov Joshua Shimon Pazner Isabella Arkady Medvedev Ed Fielding Lior Adrian Carter Allon (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Master art restorer and assassin for the Israeli Secret Service. Julian Isherwood: Eccentric London art dealer. Recruits Gabriel to locate a missing Rembrandt. Martin Landesmann: Swiss Billionaire. Maurice Durand: Master Art Thief. Chiara Allon: Agent with the Israeli Secret Service and Gabriel's beautiful wife. Ari Shamron: Former head of the Israeli Secret Service, who still in reality supervises all of Gabriel's operations. Adrian Carter: CIA Agent and head of Clandestine Intelligence Service with CIA. Friend of Gabriel who has worked with him in multiple operations. Eli Lavon: Gabriel's best friend and Israeli Secret Service Agent. Also full time archaeology teacher. Graham Seymour: Head of MI5. Has worked with Gabriel on multiple operations and is Gabriel's friend. Zoe Reed: British newspaper reporter extraordinaire and mistress of the antagonist. Latham Jason Turnbury: Editor at Financial Joural Yaakov Rossman: Office Agent, part of Gabriel's team; from the Arab Affairs Dept of Shabak Monique Landesmann: Martin Landesmann's wife Vincenzo Peruggia Angélique Brossard Derek Carlos Weber Teddy Sinclair Hannah Weinberg: Owner of the "Marguerite Gachet at Her Dressing Table" David Albright Gilah Shamron: Ari Shamron's wife Kenneth Ramsay Timothy Peel Yossi Gavish Mikhail Abramov Rimona Stern Christopher Liddell Kurt Voss Uzi Navot Peter Voss David Cavendish Nigel Whitcombe Gerald Malone Elizabeth Halton: Robert Carlyle's daughter; was a ER Surgeon at Denver's Rose Medical Center until she moved with her father; President's god-daughter Cynthia Scarborough Keppler Werk Ronald Harkness de Graaf Cézanne Karl Huber Claude Monet Jacob Herzfeld Malcolm Braithwaite Iranian president Leonardo Hitler Mordecai Manet Emily Liddell Ivan Kharkov Viktor Orlov Sally Yves Morel Dottie Cox Maria Espinoza Ramirez Gideon Argov Hester Lena Herzfeld Adolf Eichmann Pascal Rameau Walter Landesmann Alfonso Ramirez: Anti-government journalist Edmund Radcliff Oliver Dimbleby Samuel Rubin Umberto Conti Jonas Brunner Christoph Meili Ulrich Müller Pablo Picasso Rafael Bloch Hendrickje Stoffels Dina Sarid Oded: Field Agent René Monjean Rembrandt van Rijn Vera Hobbs Vincent van Gogh Hermann Göring Gustaaf van Berkel Rachel Herzfeld Davos Rossi (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Israeli intelligence officer, assassin, art restorer, husband. Adrian Carter: director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service Counter Terrorism Center Rashid Al-Husseini: only son of a former Yemeni government minister; born in America; charismatic Islamic cleric. James A. McKenna: Assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, aka the Terrorism Czar. Sarah Bancroft: daughter of a wealthy Citibank executive; youngest woman ever to earn a PhD in art history at Harvard; joined the CIA after her boyfriend was killed during the 9/11 terrorist attack. Dina Sarid: An Office inteligence officer and terrorism expert; a human database; aka Emma Mikhail Abramov: Israeli assassin and field operative for the Israeli Secret Service; born in Russia Eli Lavon: regarded as the finest street surveillance artist the Office had ever produced; primarily teaches archaeology at Jerusalem's Hebrew University Malik al-Zubair: Palestinian from Zarqa called the master of terror; expert bomb-maker. Graham Seymour: deputy director of MI5. Zoe Reed: journalist for the American business news network CNBC. Nicholas Lovegrove: A hired bidder at Christie's; art consultant Chiara Allon: Gabriel's wife Julian Isherwood: A lover, owner and cherisher of art masterpieces. Owns a gallery in London. Rafiq al-Kamal: former chief of Zizi al-Bakari's personal security detail; now works for Nadia. Uzi Navot: chief of Israel's secret intelligence service; wife Bella, an expert on Syria Ellis Coyle: Bored uethical man; CIA Ari Shamron: Spy master of Mossad Yossi Gavish: intelligence & top officer in Research, the Office's analytical division; aka Thomas Fowler Oliver Dimbleby: Art dealer in London. Competitor of Julian. Christie: Auction house for rare pieces of art. Abdul Aziz al-Bakari aka Zizi: Founder of AAB Holdings and Nadia's father; "financier of mass murder". Rena: Best friend of Nadia. Farid Khan: Suicide Bomber, London's Covent Garden Yvette Dubois: Madame Dubois is Nadia al-Bakari's executive assistant. Samir Abbas: Banker that helps finance terriorists. Wealth-management specialist for TransArabian Bank of Dubai Nadia al-Bakari: Daughter of Zizi al-Bakari and one of the richest women in the world Abdul Aziz al-Bakari: AKA: Zizi al-Bakari; Nadia's father and was known as the financier of mass murders Norah: Wife of Ellis Coyle, child psychologist Mr. Qahtani: Faisal Qahtani - a former Saudi GID officer Yaakov Rossman: Israeli agent runner Daoud Hamza: Stanford-educated Lebanese ran day to day operations of AAB Holdings Giovanni Rossi: aka Gabriel Allon Terry O'Connor: Irish tycoon, bidder at Christie's Madame Yvette Dubois: Nadia's French executive assistant Roland Devereaux aka Gabriel Allon Gilah: wife of Shamron Penelope: young married woman Julian Isherwood was having an affair with Esmeralda: Nadia's housekeeper Oded: Israeli all - purpose field agents Dani: Gabriel's deceased son killed in a car bombing Prince Nabil: radical member of the House of Saud; Saudi interior minister Nicky: Nicholas Lovegrove's nickname Jenny Fowler: aka Rimona Stern Leah: Gabriel's ex-wife who was horribly injured in s car bombing which took her mind and body Dottie Cox: resident and proprietor of village store in Gunwalloe, West Cornwall Tony Berringer: art consultant for a Russian oligarch Palma Vecchio: Venetian master Yaqub al-Mansur: 12th century Almohad caliph known his bloody raids into Christian lands Yoav Savir: member of the Sayeret Matkal, the IDF elite special operations unit, and Mikhail's former commanding officer Safia: wife of Ali al-Masri, a talib (a student of Sheikh Tayyib) Isabelle: special events coordinator at the Hotel de Crillon Langley: CIA headquarters in VA Hanan: daughter born to Ali and Safia Muhammad Abdul Wahhab: 18th century preacher whose austere and puritanical version of Islam became the official creed of Saudi Arabia Mr. Darwish aka Malik al-Zubair Mordecai: Israeli all - purpose field agent Cynthia Rimona Stern: former Israeli intelligence officer and Shamron's niece; currently dealing with Iran's disabled nuclear program Skeikh Marwan Bin Tayyib: dean of the department of theology at the University of Mecca; a Salafi musiim who believe they are the keepers of the true faith; serves as advisor to Saudi Arabia's terrorist rehabilitation program Yusuf: Rashid's most trusted couriers Kemel Arwish: deceased Islamist courier who portrayed self as a Westernized moderate Osama Bin Laden: once leader of al-Qaeda now deceased Ali al-Masri: a talib Duncan Reynolds: resident of Gunwalloe, West Cornwall Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Lucy: Ellis Coyle's dog Jack Chambers Roddy Hutchinson: art dealer Lisa Thomas Fowler: an English tycoon, partner in a venture capital firm Roger & Cressey; aka Yossi Gavish Nigel Whitcombe: MI5 officer, cut his first operational tooth under Gabriel Simon Mendenhall: Christie's auctioneer Mr. Hamdali: bidder for the Titian painting through Nicholas Lovegrove Francis Hunt: chief auctioneer at Christie's Hector Candiotti: art advisor to a Belgian magnate Vera Hobbs Ahmed Bin Shafiq: Saudi intelligence officer who planned successful attack on Vatican killing 700+. Financed by Zizi. Abdul & Abdul: legal team of AAB Holdings Mr. Darwish aka Malik al Zubair (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Art restorer of Old Master paintings, retired Israeli spy, and assassin who works for the Office. Ari Shamron: Former head of the Office. Uzi Navot: Current Head of the Office Chiara: Venetian born Israeli spy and Gabriel's wife and member of Barak. Pope Paul VII; aka The Vicar of Christ: Born Pietro Lucchesi, now Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Monsignor Luigi Donati: the all-powerful private secretary to his Holiness Pope Paul VII. Niccolò Moretti: Chief caretaker of St. Peter's Basilica Antonio Calvesi: The Vatican's chief conservator and former art restorer and Gabriel's past rival. Col. Alois Metzler: Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. Lorenzo Vitale: Chief of the Corpo della Gendarmeria - the Vatican's 130-member police force. Claudia Andreatti: A curator in the Vatican's antiquities division. Paola Andreatti: Claudia's sister, a cardiologist, living in London who doesn't believe that her sister committed suicide. Shimon Pazner: Head of "the Office" section in the Israeli embassy, Rome. Gen. Cesare Ferrari: Chief of the Carabinieri "Art Squad" that deals with thefts of Italian artworks. A frequent target of assassination plots, he lost two fingers and his right eye. His immobile ocular prosthesis reminds one of the all-seeing eye of God. Dr. Veronica Marchese: Archaeologist and attorney, 50; Italy's foremost authority on Etruscan art and civilization. She has consulted with the Italian Art Squad on specific cases. Married to Carlo Marchese. Carlo Marchese: A member of the Lay Supervisory Council of the Vatican Bank. Mafia chieftain of a global crime syndicate including most of the illicit antiquities trade. Husband of Dr. Veronica Marchese. David Girard: Lebanese, born Daoud Ghandour, educated at the Sorbonne and Oxford: PhD in classical archaeology. Now owns an antiquities gallery in St. Moritz. Maurice Durand: Owner of Antiquitiés Scientifiques, Paris, a front for dealing in stolen paintings and antiquities. Anton Drexler: Premier Antiquities Services, Hamburg, Germany ... a/k/a Gabriel Allon. Christoph Bittel: Swiss DAP Counter Terrorism Divn. Ali Montazeri: "Proud alumnus" of the Iranian Qods Force; now a hired gun for VEVAK as an assassin. Massoud Rahimi: Iranian Embassy Berlin staff, where he doubled as VEVAK's main Western, forward-operating base for terror. Massoud is Iran's top mastermind of international terror. Hassan Darwish: Imam and member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Waqf, the official Muslim caretakers of the Temple Mount. Father Mark: Donati's assistant, originally from Philadelphia, who doesn't like Gabriel. Eli Lavon: Adjunct professor of biblical archaeology at Hebrew University, Office street surveillance specialist and worked with Gabriel during Operation Wrath of God, and has continued to work with him on almost all of Gabriel's subsequent missions. Member of Barak. Leah Savir Allon: Gabriel ex-wife who he visits when in Israel. She resides in Mount Herzl Psychiatric Hospital. Mikhail Abramov: An immigrant from Russia and member of Sayeret Matkal, the Israeli Defense Force's elite special operations unit. A fellow member of Barak described as "Gabriel without a conscience." Dina Sarid: Israeli intelligence analyst and fellow member of Gabriel's team, Barak. Known as "a human database ". Jonas Kessler: Chief of the Austrian security service Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Italian painter (c 1571-1610), whose painting of The Disposition of Christ Allon is restoring Black Nobility: Aristocratic families who remained loyal to the pope after the conquest of the papal States in 1870. Viktor Frankel: German Expressionist and Gabriel Allon's father Yossi Gavish: Senior officer from Research, the Office's analytical division, who spoke Hebrew with a distinct English accent; member of Barak. Yaakov Rossman: Counter intelligence officer from Shabak, Israel's internal security service and member of Gabriel's Barak Oded and Mordecai: all purpose field hands for Gabriel's team, the Barak Rimona Stern: A former military intelligence officer and a member of Gabriel's Barak; Shamron's niece. Adrian Carter: Chief of the National Clandestine Service, the CIA's operational division. Sir Charles Warren: Officer from the British Royal Engineers who conducted the first and only survey of the Temple Mount between 1867-1870. Rivka: human skeleton found by Eli Lavon; believes she was witness to the Roman siege of Jerusalem and destruction of Herod's Second Temple (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Art restorer and former assassin and Israeli spy Daniel Allon: The deceased son of Gabriel Allon. Killed in an explosion. Bella: Uzi Navot's overbearing wife. Pauline: Madeline's friend Don Anton Orsati: Crime boss, and producer of high quality olive oil, from Corsica. Uzi Navot: Current Chief of the Office. Rimona Stern: Ari Shamron's niece and member of Gabriel's team. Madeline Hart: An beautiful English woman who disappears. Adrian Carter: Director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service Counter Terrorism Center Dina Sarid Erich Radek Nadia al-Bakari Jeremy Fallon: British Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster's fix it person. Pavel Zhirov Fiona Jonathan Lancaster: British Prime Minister. Christopher Keller Dmitry Bershov: Lazarev's deputy Siddiq Hussein Graham Seymour Tziona Levin Yossi Gavish Oded Joseph Stalin: Deceased Russian leader. Don Casabianca Chiara Allon: Gabriel's wife. Gilah de Gaulle Gennady Lazarev Eli Lavon Ari Shamron Simon Hewitt Alexei Voronin Nigel Whitcombe Viktor Orlov Samantha Cooke René Brossard Emma Hewitt: Simon Hewitt's wife Alexander Dolmatov Alexei Navalny Yasir Arafat E. M. Forster Mordecai Bar-Zvi Leah Yaakov Rossman Marcel Lacroix Vladimir Putin Vadim Strelkin Lenin Susanna Jacopo Bassano Leonid Milchenko Paul Zhirov Alison Arthur Seymour Igor Helen Boris Yeltsin Bloch Saul Boulevard Jonathan Albright Ivan Kharkov (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Paintings restorer. Agent Israeli Secret Service Julian Isherwood: Art Dealer and owner of an art gallery in London Samir Basara: A go-between in a very dangerous game. Waleed al-Siddiqi: Syrian National. Banker in Austria. Uzi Navot: Head of the Office Yaakov Rossman: Gabe recruits Yaakov for his newest mission. Peter Rutledge Oded: An Office employee Jeremy Crabbe Christoph Bittel: Works for Swedish Police Antonio Politi James Bradshaw: First person to die in the novel. Criminal that also worked for the Israeli's. Zimmer Hamid Khaddam Guido Reni Feliks Adler Jonathan Albright Don Anton Orsati: Runs the Orsati Olive Oil Business, works with Gabriel Dina Sarid: An Office employee Kemel al-Farouk: Deputy Prime Minister to the Syrian President Vincent van Gogh: We all know who he is don't we? Adrianna Zinetti Christopher Keller: an former British solider, now lives in Corsica and works for Orsati Omari Oliver Dimbleby: Works in the London Art World Amanda Clifton Nicole Devereaux Nigel Whitcombe: Head of MI-6 Ali Rashid Eli Lavon: Long time friend and co-worker of Gabriel Caravaggio: An Italian Painter Martin Landesmann Parmigianino Chiara Zolli: Mrs G. Allon General Cesare Ferrari: Head of the Art Squad in Italy Leah Rimona Stern: An Office employee Pierre-Auguste Renoir Viktor Orlov: Former Russian living in exile in London. Gilah: Shamron's long suffering wife Graham Seymour Gustav Klimt Herr Markus Weber: Co-owner of a bank in Linz Mordecai: An Office employee Pascal Rameau Reg Bartholomew Don Casabianca Jacob Zolli Jonas Fischer Sandro di Luca Yossi Gavish Yves Morel Mario Delvecchio Ari Shamron Francesco Tiepolo Jihan Nawaz: Accounts manager, Austrian bank. Mikhail Abramov Maurice Durand Simon Mendenhall Paolo Veronese Bella Navot (hide spoiler)]
(view spoiler)[ Gabriel Allon: Israeli spy Spider Barnes: Cook, Aurora ship Colin Hernandez: Replacement cook, Aurora ship. Reginald Ogilvy: Captain of the Aurora Amelia List: Aurora's sous chef Johnathan Lancaster: British PM Simon Hastings-Clarke: English viscount Graham Seymour: Head MI6 Uzi Navot: Head, Israel Secret Service Chiara Allon: Allon's wife Eamon Quinn: Member, IRA Christopher Keller: English Spy. Former SAS Don Anton Orsati: Runs the Orsati Olive Oil Business, works with Gabriel Liam Walsh: Member, IRA Amanda Wallace: Head, MI5 Billy Conway: Former SAS Maggie Donahue: Quinn's wife Catherine Donahue: Quinn's daughter Eli Lavon: Adjunct professor of biblical archaeology at Hebrew University, Office street surveillance specialist and worked with Gabriel during Operation Wrath of God, and has continued to work with him on almost all of Gabriel's subsequent missions. Member of Barak. Anna Huber: Quinn associate Parish: Caretaker Wormwood Miss Conventry: Cook, Wormwood Madeline Hart: Former Russian Spy Samantha Cooke: English journalist Ari Shamron: Former Head, Israeli intelligence Col. Alexis Rosanov: SVR Dmitry Ulyanin: SVR "resident" London Mikhail Abramov: Israeli spy Yaakov Rossman: Israeli spy Reza Nazari: VEVAK agent Moshen Esfahani: Deputy Chief VEVAK (hide spoiler)]
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Gabriel Allon: Former Israeli Mossad Agent; one of the best art restorers in the world.
Leah: Gabriel's wife.
Timothy Peel: Eleven-year-old boy who lives near Gabriel in Cornwall.
Derek: Peel's mother's lover, a struggling playwright.
Emily Parker: American staying in Paris for a few months since graduating.
Leila Khalifa: Student at the Sorbonne, Paris; befriends Emily.
Zev Eliyahu: Israeli Ambassador to France (Paris).
Hannah Eliyahu: Ambassador Eliyahu's wife.
Moshe Savir: Charge d'affaires, Israeli embassy, Paris.
Ari Shamron: Spymaster; head of Israeli Intelligence, brought out of retirement 6 months previously.
Rami: Young head of Shamron's personal security detail.
Esther: Shamron's secretary.
Eli Lavon: Member of Shamron's senior staff; Planning section.
Mordecai: Member of Shamron's senior staff; the service's executive officer.
Lev: Member of Shamron's senior staff; chief of Operations.
Yossi: Member of Shamron's senior staff; on the Europe Desk.
Uzi Navot: Head of Shamron's Paris Station.
Bella: Uzi Navot's lover; writer and historian; occasional consultant to Israeli Intelligence.
Shimon: On Shamron's Research team.
Tariq al-Hourani (aka Lucien Daveau, Emilio Gonzales): Formerly PLO before leaving to form his own small, tightly knit terror group.
Achmed Natour: Messenger from Kemel to Tariq.
Kemel Azouri: Chief of sales division, Schloss Pharmaceuticals, Zurich.
Margarite: Kemel's secretary at Schloss Pharmaceuticals.
Mohammed Azziz: Former Popular Front member before joining Tariq's organisation.
Julian Isherwood: London art dealer; Israeli Intelligence 'helper'.
Heather: Julian's assistant.
Benjamin Stone: Owner of an international publishing conglomerate; lives in London; Israeli Intelligence 'helper'.
Oliver Dimbleby: London art dealer; close competitor of Julian's.
Penelope: Assistant in a London art-supply shop.
Jacqueline Delacroix: 33-year-old French fashion model. (Birth name Sarah Halevy.)
Marcel Lambert: Jacqueline's agent.
Michel Duval: French fashion photographer, (Paris).
Robert Leboucher: Fashion editor.
Fiona Barrows: Manager of an old block of flats in London.
Yusef al-Tawfiki: UK-based terrorist reporting to Tariq. Poet; part-time student (London); part-time waiter.
Inge van der Hoff: Amsterdam barmaid; drug addict.
Randall Karp: American surveillance operative; specialist in listening devices.
David Morgenthau: American multi-millionaire; on holiday in Amsterdam; Zionist supporter.
Cynthia Morgenthau: David's wife; interior designer
Adrian Carter: CIA executive director.
Zvi Yadin: Israeli agent at the Ottawa Station; knows Gabriel from their time at the Academy together.
James Beckwith: President of the United States.
Yasir Arafat: President of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation).
Douglas Cannon: Former Senator from NY, Palestinian sympathizer.
Anne-Marie Delacroix: French woman who saved Isaac Halevy's life when he was a baby, and then raised him.
Maurice Halévy: Jacqueline's grandfather.
Rachel Halévy: Jacqueline's grandmother.
Isaac Halévy: Jacqueline's father.
Mahmoud al-Hourani: Tariq's older brother, ( dec'd). (hide spoiler)]