Fractured Europe: list of characters & places

As well as a few notes about some significant events.

From The Fractured Europe Sequence & Cold Water by Dave Hutchinson

This list may be particularly helpful for people who listen to the audiobooks—for example, when characters are named Forsyth and Forsythe; Stefan and Stepan; Erik and Eric—as well as for people like me who aren't deeply familiar with the geography of Europe. It also can be helpful when a character is briefly introduced, then shows up hundreds of pages later or in a following book. That said, even after two listens and taking these notes, I'm still puzzled about some bits of the story. And that's okay.

• Europe in Autumn
• Europe at Midnight
• Europe in Winter
• Europe at Dawn
• Cold Water

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Europe in Autumn

Solaris, 2014; audiobook: Recorded Books, 2017.

• Max, restaurant owner, Restauracja Max in Kraków, Poland
• Rudi, cook at Restauracja Max, born in Pärnu, a city on the western coast of Estonia on the Baltic Sea; now based in Tallinn, a city in northern Estonia on the Baltic Sea, but living and working in Kraków
• The Hungarians, rowdy diners at Restauracja Max, mobsters
• Kerenyi, the leader of the Hungarians
• Wesoły Ptak (Happy Bird), gangsters providing "protection" to Restauracja Max
• Dariusz, Wesoły Ptak's rep to Restauracja Max
• Michał, Restauracja Max maitre d'
• Pani Stasia, old woman who is the head chef at Restauracja Max
• Hindenberg, a polity in the southwest of what was Poland, centered on the cities of Wrocław (Breslau in German) and Opole (Opeln in German), the Independent Silesian State of Hindenberg
• Silesian, a Slavic ethnic group name for the inhabitants of Silesia, a historical region in Central Europe divided by the current national boundaries of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic
• Warnemünde, a port city in north Germany on the Baltic Sea
• Pani Stasia, head chef at Restauracja Max, older woman
• Gliwice and Strzelce Opolskie, cities in Poland between Kraków and Wrocław
• The Line, a railway and sovereign country (The Independent Trans-European Republic) bisecting the European continent; originally a civil engineering project of the European Parliament called the TransEurope Rail Route, meant to be an unbroken rail link running from Lisbon to Chukotka in the far east of Siberia, with branches connecting all the capitals of Europe ("The TransEurope Rail Company became a microcosm of the increasingly fractious European Parliament, complete with votes, vetoes, lobbying, corruption and all the other things so beloved of democracies."); now administered by the Company
• Schengen Agreement, a treaty, signed on 14 June 1985, near the town of Schengen, Luxembourg, by five of the ten member states of the then European Economic Community, which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks had largely been abolished
• The Xian Flu, a massive flu epidemic that had killed as many as 40 million people in Europe alone, and had also effectively killed Schengen, bringing back quarantine checks and national borders as a means of controlling the spread of the disease
• European Union (EU), still exists, by only in scattered bits and pieces, mainly in England and Poland and Spain and Belgium
• Paweł Grabiański, agency chef who sometimes subs at Restauracja Max
• Jan Paweł II/Balice, Kraków's international airport
• Les Coureurs des Bois, a compartmentalized group of elite smugglers, perhaps dabbling in espionage as well; overseen by Central
• Fabio, assigned by Dariusz as Rudi's mentor for Les Coureurs
  
  • Legends, fictitious identities
  • Stringers, non-Coureur personnel, or entry-level Coureurs, who did makework like scoping out locations in the field or maintaining legends
  • Pianists, hackers
  • Tailors, provide technical support
  • Cobblers, forge documents
• Armia Różowych Pilotów (ARP), the Army of the Pink Pilot, who painted pink the Warsaw Palace of Culture, a leftover from the Soviet occupation
• Poznań, Polish city north of Wrocław and west of Warsaw
• Herr Rausching, Fabio's legend when entering the Line's Consulate in Poznań
• Rocco Siffredi, Rudi's legend in Poznań (and the name of a former porn star)
• Kaunas, man who interrogates Rudi at the Line Consulate (also a city in Lithuania)
• The Zone (Beskid Economic Zone), an autonomous national park and skiing area in northeastern Czechoslovakia, near the Polish border
• Tonu Laar, Rudi's legend to enter the Zone, where he works as a kitchen porter in a hotel
• Jan, the hotel's manager
• Marta, Rudi's girlfriend at the hotel, works in housekeeping as a maid
• Kerenyi, the Hungarian's alias in the Zone
• Marta, actually a Zone Security officer
• Leo, Coureur, the head in the locker
• Madame Lebec, Coureur Central message decrypter in Paris
• Bradley, a Central case officer
• Lahemaa rahvuspark, national park northwest of Rakvere; visitor center at Palmse
• Toomas, Rudi's father, was head ranger at the national park
• Ivari, Rudi's older brother, now head ranger
• Frances, Ivari's wife
• Major Ash, British SAS officer who kidnaps Rudi from Palmse to Helsinki, and later accompanies him from Helsinki to London
• Gibbon, English intelligence, MI6
• Mr Bauer (Red), American, Rudi's "host" in London, leads Smithson's Chambers, a group of about a dozen barristers
• Mr Self, colleague of Mr Bauer; in his office, Rudi finds a computer with a list of bank access codes that makes him realize that Smithson's Chambers is a black bank for covert funds, and he now has the bank codes to access fourteen and a half million Swiss francs
• Mrs Gabriel, Mr Bauer's housekeeper
• Sock puppet, a false online identity used for deceptive purposes
• Seth, Coureur, asked to make an alias for Mr Roger Curtis
• Lewis, Seth's flatmate; Lewis' girlfriend is Angela
• I used to date the Rokeby Venus, a recognition string
• Leo, temporary alias for Rudi when he first meets Seth
• Crossing the border into Scotland, Seth helps Rudi get out of England by paying a couple Scottish women (Annette and Lauren) to take them across the border to Scotland; the trip across the border is the first hint of something fantastical
• Xavier X (Twenty), a leader of the Revisionists
• Kapitan Todt (Captain Death), previously known as Florian Grüber; leader of the Grandsons of Gavrilo Princip (mostly made up of orphans), started out as a football gang in Berlin
• Aldo, previous leader of the Grandsons
• Municipality, an old housing development a few minutes' drive from the swanky new blocks in East Kreuzberg (central Berlin) where the Grandsons set up a country
• The Swimmer, "lay in the middle of the room in a glass-walled tank filled with a clear medicated gel. Almost every inch of his body was terribly burned, and the machines and devices and bottles of fluid and gas which kept him alive lined the walls, clear plastic tubes running everywhere across the floor. A bulky mask was strapped to his face, feeding some kind of oxygenated fluid into his ruined lungs." What's left of Fabio. The Kapitan is Fabio's sister's boy, "Little Fabio"
• Three proofs, something Fabio took from the Consulate, which led to him getting "fired"; Fabio has the Kapitan give Rudi the proofs and a key; Little Fabio knows what the key unlocks; in turn Rudi and Seth help the Kapitan escape by floating off the roof hanging to balloons
• Professor Lev Semyonovitch Laptev (the man from Sibir), a telegrapher (pianist; hacker) of Russian descent living on a Greek island, barely surviving who Rudi hires to decrypt a coded message contained in a leather-bound notebook accompanied by a standard map of the Line and a 1912 railway timetable for the South of England
• Smith, the Balt, another alias for Rudi that he initially uses with Lev
• The Whitton-Whytes, a family of cartographers in England
• Sheet 2000, the only surviving engraving of the alternative survey maps produced by General Whitton Whyte of an area west of London
• Village of Stanhurst, just north of Colnbrook, Middlesex, appears on Sheet 2000, even though no such village ever existed
• Adam Vale, another non-existent village near Colnbrook that was added to Sheet 2000 later by General Whitton-Whyte's son; still later Adam Vale grew and displaced Colnbrook
• The Black Sheet, still later, even more imaginary villages were added by Charles, General Whitton-Whyte's grandson, and the enclosing 'county' of Ernshire; the map was banned by Parliament
• The Natal Sheet, the final revision of Sheet 2000 printed on the day Edwin, General Whitton-Whyte's great grandson was born; only one copy survives; the county of Ernshire now includes "rail links to the four points of the compass, an extensive road network, a barracks in Anselmdale, farms, churches, post offices, all the amenities of a real county, even a manor house at Eveshalt"; "In September 1890 a special Act of Parliament was passed forbidding any member of the Whitton-Whyte family from ever publishing another map"
• Edwin Winton-Whyte's journal: My father believed, he wrote, as did my grandfather and great-grandfather, that he had discovered a county where none exists, a landscape overlooked by the very people who occupy it. My grandfather writes of maps having a power over the land, and theorises that if an imaginary landscape is mapped in great enough detail, it will eventually supplant the actual physical landscape, as a wet cloth wipes chalk from a blackboard.My great-grandfather, on the other hand, wrote of all possible landscapes underlying each other like the pages of a book, requiring only the production of a map of each landscape to make it real.
• Mrs Margaret Allen, the sister of Charles; raised Edwin
• Stephen, claimed to be a nephew of Mrs Allen and gave her a map marked in the bottom right-hand corner: Whitton-Whyte and Sons. Mapmakers. Stanhurst
• The Community, the Whitton-Whytes' greatest dream, a country mapped over the top of the whole of Europe (topologically superimposed) and entirely populated by Englishmen. "The Community was a topological freak, a nation existing in the same place as Europe but only accessible through certain points on the map."
• The Baedeker, Lev's sarcastic name for the "guidebook" (Verlag Karl Baedeker is a German publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides); "This was what Fabio had stolen from the Line's consulate in Poznań. Three proofs of the existence of a parallel universe. And a map showing how to get into it."
• Maksim Fedorovich Koniev, Lev's false passport, procured by Rudi
• Major Petr Brabec, Prague police (jokingly called Major Zemam, the lead character of an infamous long-running Communist-era television series)
• Sergeant Jakub, detective working with Petr
• Abram, Chechen warlord
• Major Větrovec, Czech ATG (Anti-Terrorist Group)
• Ismail, Major Větrovec's second in command
• Major Menzel, the head of the Czech Immigration Service
• Władysław, a city in the Community connected to Prague by alleyways
• Paweł, old man living in a forest straddling the border between Poland and Belarus
• Nowak, lives in the village near Paweł and handles renting out Paweł's lodge to hunters
• You have no idea how long we've waited for this, one of the people traveling from the Community to Europe says to Rudi and Paweł when they arrive at Paweł's lodge

Europe at Midnight

Rebellion, 2015; audiobook: Recorded Books, 2018.

• Araminta Jane Delahunty, young woman from the East Side looking for for a job, teaches literature
• Rupert (Rupe), narrator, intelligence coordinator, and in charge of Security for the Campus; formerly Doctor of Literature, jokingly told Araminta that Rupert of Hentzau was his name because he had been reading too much Anthony Hope, and that was the name of a book he wrote in 1895
• The Campus, where they all live and work, nestled in a bowl surrounded mountains; in a sense, they are all prisoners as the land between the campus and the mountains, the Death Zones are full of land mines, boobytraps, automatic guns, and fences; people have been trying to find a way out, a safe passage; many people have died trying
• Richard Rossiter, Campus Board member
• Apocrypha, the place where the history records of the Boards of the Campus are stored
• Old Board, had ruled the Campus for 200 years before being deposed four months previously during what came to be called "The Fall", the culmination of The Revolution
• Science City, the massive area of the many Campus science schools
• Callum, Dean of the Campus Science Faculty
• Sergeants , people who enforce Campus civil laws
• Harry Pool, oversees the morgue at the Campus Medical Faculty; self-taught medic
• Lou (Louisa) Collier, 33rd member of the new Campus Board's Intelligence Faculty; Rupe's new research assistant
• Doctor Anna Glasgow, Campus librarian
• The Colonel, head of the previous Campus Board
• Jim, middle-ranked member of the His Majesty's Security Service (MI5), Camden Town, London; assigned to assess a stabbing on a bus; before he passed out, the victim said to the responding police officer: I want asylum, tell them I've seen a map
• Superintendent Spicer, London Metropolitan Police Service
• Dr Kumar, Security Service doctor at a private clinic
• Shaw, HM Security Service
• Professor Adele Bevan, tells Jim she thinks the stabbing victim is from a village called Standhurst in a county named Ernshire created by the Whitton-Whytes in a parallel (pocket) universe
• The Perigee Committee, a working group that Jim is seconded to that is studying the possibility of the existence of Ernshire; their product is called Tombola; Shaw is the head of the committee
• Director-General, the woman in charge of HM Security Service
• The Community, what started as a parallel county has grown into a nation that stretches from Portugal to Moscow with millions of people
• Sergeant Roger Skinner and his partner George, secured the Apocrypha when Anna and Lou were found murdered there
• Dr Richard Brooks, lecturer at the Science Faculty, responsible for distributing illicit drugs, son-in-law of Callum, knows about Molson
• Andrew Kenneth Molson, Campus Biochemistry lecturer
• Rafe William Delahunty, Araminta's brother, from England, works with viruses like the one that caused the flu epidemic; Rafe has been missing for a year and she's been looking for him; she thinks he's either in the Campus Science Faculty or the Community
• Nottingham, where Rupert ends up after kayaking down the river from the Campus; north of London
• Murchison, Scottish chap that Rupert meets at St Katherine's (St Kat's) Refuge for the Homeless
• Rowland Forsythe, looks for books on behalf of specialist bookshops and collectors
• Tommy Potter, alias for Rupert, travels around finding books for Rowland at auctions, closing down sales, bankruptcy clearances, car boot sales, etc.
• Tustin's Where To Go in Wartime, a travel book of photos that includes one taken in the Community
• Alison Shand, Tommy's girlfriend (accomplice?)
• Lionel, Community agent
• The Farmboy, Lionel's tough guy
• Baines, Tommy's handler, a workname (alias) for Jim
• Eleanor, cruel accomplice of Lionel, from the Community
• Charles, avuncular accomplice of Eleanor
• Simon, dim and overenthusiastic accomplice of Eleanor
• Leo, Coureur, doing a job for Eleanor trying to find out how a letter from someone in Dresden and sent to Charles got out of Dresden
• Dresden, now split into the Altstadt and the separate, very, very rich Republic of Dresden-Neustadt (a polity), an area of a square mile entirely surrounded by walls a hundred feet high, the world's biggest data haven, the world's biggest private bank
• Rolf Müller, Superintendent, Dresden Sanitation Department (Altstadt), one of their most expert sewer engineers
• Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), German intelligence (domestic)
• The Archaeologist (Herr Professor Heinz Mundt), "quiet old man, a grey-haired gaffer in a crumpled ill-fitting suit and glasses … interested in the topology of underground structures"; helped by Leo to disappear after he gets them all out of Dresden-Neustadt (this all happens before Rudi visits the locker in Berlin in Europe in Autumn)
• Roger Parrish, American, acquaintance of Eleanor, private security
• Dr Richard Beeching, his 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways cited 5,000 miles of line and almost 2,500 stations that had been earmarked for closure; and Araminta had said a branch line off the main West Country route from Paddington had once led into Ernshire
• Johnny Pugh, leading the team working for the Perigee Committee checking the abandoned branch lines to see if any lead into Ernshire
• Herold Bekker, intelligence officer, Dutch Security Service (AIVD)
• Kaunas, Coureur Central
• Alan Sheridan, alias Jim uses in Amsterdam
• Christine, owner of a bookshop in the Community where Tommy Potter (Rupe) works
• Michael, works for the Community Directorate security service; Tommy's handler
• Władysław, a city in the Community where Rafe William Delahunty lives
• Horace, fisherman in Victoria, an impoverished Community town
• Rowena, Horace's wife
• George Quinn, bookshop customer, asks about Rafe's purchases
• Patricia (Doctor Patricia Bradley), companion of George who Tommy meets when he visits a pub with George
• You've no idea how long we've waited for this, Rush says when he arrives in Europe after leaving the Community with Montagu, Rupert, and Patricia.
• Kenneth James Russell and Janis Wilson Russell, Jim's parents, who died days apart due to the Xian Flu
• National Cemetery, after meeting in front of the graves of Jim's parents, Jim says to Rupert: "They made fools of us. They've been running the Service for… oh, at least seven years now. There's no way to know how many more of them are in positions of authority, or how long they've been there."

Europe in Winter

Solaris, 2016; audiobook: Recorded Books, 2018.

• Kenneth & Amanda Pennington, taking a train trip on the Line from Savigny, north of Paris, to Siberia via the Trans-Europe Rail Company's Paris-Novosibirsk Express; Amanda is pregnant and is wearing a remote foetal heart monitor
• Etienne, representative of the Line Security
• Ufa Tunnel, 24 kilometers long through mountains in the Southern Urals
• The Hungarians, rowdy diners at Restauracja Max, mobsters, in a scene identical to the one early in Europe in Autumn, where Rudi is the chef
• Republic of Dresden-Neustadt, exquisitely detailed simulations of Europe are running on their servers
• Rupert (Rupe), originally intelligence coordinator and in charge of Security for the Campus, now on the run from the Community
• Professor Lev, a pianist (hacker) of Russian descent
• Novosibirsk, Siberian capital of Sibir
• Spencer, unstable, on meds/pills
• Bethan, Spencer's ex
• Euston, railway station in central London
• Mirny, Sakha Republic, Russia
• Mirny EcoState, a terraformed city built in what had been the world's second-deepest mine, now domed over
• Stansted, airport north of London
• Lewis, de facto leader of a little group of Community fans
• Gwen (Gwendoline Katherine Craig), belongs to Lewis's group; works for a Junior Minister at the Home Office; tasked with organizing a state visit of President Ambrose Ruston and several Community officials
• Luxembourg, small, wealthy country between Belgium, Germany, and France
• The Emergence, when the Community revealed itself to Europe
• Presiding Authority, head of the Community
• Smith, an alias Rudi is using in Luxembourg
• Seth, former Coureur, first showed up in Europe in Autumn
• Dieter Wilhelm Berg, the man that was arrested shortly before Gwen and Rudi were separately supposed to rendezvous with him; works for the Defence Ministry in Procurement
• Fritz, truck driver, delivered fencing out to a forest site
• Mr Donatien Pasquinel, works for the Line (the Trans-European Republic) in Wallonia
• Grigorijs, Mr Pasquinel's department head
• Wallonia, the French-speaking region of southern Belgium
• Detective Chief Superintendent Sarah Smith, EU Police, shows Rudi a photo and gives him a copy of what was inside the envelope the man in the photo had been carrying with Rudi's name on it; it was a photo of Georges Clemenceau, President Woodrow Wilson, Vittorio Orlando, the Italian Prime Minister, and David Lloyd George, as well as other people in the background, at the Versailles peace conference where the signing of the Treaty of Versailles took place
• Arabesque Security, had taken a big new contract in Luxembourg; connected to the Realm
• Juhan Salumäe, infamous rocker, bass player, Rudi's father's oldest friend
• Robert James Spencer, the man in photo the Chief Superintendent showed Rudi; thirty-eight, formerly of 22 Special Air Service Regiment, English Special Forces; was in the Sakha Republic at the same time that a member of a visiting Community delegation was assassinated, a citizen of Dresden-Neustadt, Mundt
• Roland Sarkisian, Jean-Yves Charpentier, François Tremblay, names on the envelope taped inside the box Toomas left for Rudi; in the envelope was the same photo that the Chief Superintendent had given him; Roland Sarkisian was born in Alençon in 1894; known as Le Parapluie (the umbrella), he was a mathematician who had managed to draw around him a group of like-minded young men who styled themselves the Sarkisian Collective, a group of mathematicians and topologists and cartographers
• Carey Tews, American, traveling on a Texas passport, writing lifestyle piece in Hungary for a little-known online magazine; gets stopped at border for contraband hidden in her car; Coureur
• Martón, a representative of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice
• Balász, person who picked Carey up (stole her) from Martón
• László Viktor, after Carey is stolen from the police, she is taken to Viktor, whose merchandise she was attempting to smuggle out of Hungary; he demands she get his merchandise back; a.k.a., Kerenyi (the leader of the Hungarian gang from Europe in Autumn)
• Benedek, henchman Viktor assigns to keep watch on Carey
• Laura, alias for Gwen; gets Carey away from Benedek, gives her a phone with some money, and tells her she needs to make her own way away; then gets in a car driven by Seth, who says, "We just want her off-balance."
• Bradley, helps Carey get out of Hungary
• The Union, the patchwork of treaties and agreements between the Community and the many nations of Europe
• Michael, Community Directorate security service; after the coup, Head of the Directorate; attending a conference of The Union in Sweden
• Rupert, acting as a waiter and posing as an armed agent for Arabesque Security, he accompanies Michael away from the conference
• Angworth, a Community town that was "stolen" by someone and then was transposed from the Community to Luxembourg
• Hal, bloke Gwen meets in the Community who is supposed to hand her a disk of Community intel for her to take back to Rudi; instead, he provides a summary: "There were two of them, in the 1980s, in the place he told me to look for. They lived here for a while, but we sent them back."
• Mr Coltrane, solicitor for the firm of Leonidas & Parr, Solicitors And Commissioners for Oaths (est. 1893) in Tilbury, in Essex, who Rudi visits; Coltrane shows him trust documents related to Rudi's father's involvement in a billion-dollar trust fund, money that was being used for something his father had been involved in for a very long time
• Grant Forsyth, Warsaw metro rep; finds workers
• Leon Grzybowski, filmmaker; Forsyth lives in his flat
• Crispin, visits Forsyth by breaking into the flat; drug dealer; originally from Colorado
• Jens Jespersen, Warsaw metro site manager
• Ewa, Forsyth's occasional girlfriend
• Babykiller, ruthless drug dealer; possibly one man, possibly a collective of underworld masterminds, possibly neither
• Stare Miasto, the Old Town Station in the metro
• Snowy, Crispin's nickname for Forsyth
• Magda, Forsyth's ex-wife; Wojtek, Magda’s husband
• Pink Palace, Pałac Kultury, the Palace of Culture
• Chudy, young hacker
• Fox, an acquaintance of Leon in whose flat Forsyth hides out
• Kwak-Kwak, Japanese site manager
• "It's not about trains, it's about tunnels.", Rudi; "Did you know, for example, that the people who built Dresden-Neustadt were also involved in building the Line?" Rudi asked. "And that some of them – quite possibly all of them – are involved in building Stare Miasto station?" He thought about it. "Actually, they've been involved in the whole Metro project, right from the beginning."
• Kitay-Gorod, a metro station in Moscow
• Johnny, inmate at a rest home; Jean-Yves Charpentier
• Whitton-Whyte, Roland Sarkisian's mother's last name
• Marta (alias), now head of Zone Security (the Beskid Economic Zone); first encountered in Europe in Autumn
• Tonu Laar, Rudi's alias in the Zone; "He was as certain as he could be, without someone actually showing him documentary evidence, that the Community had bombed the Line. Why was a mystery, but that didn't matter right now. What mattered was that the builders of the Line had responded by transposing part of the Community onto Luxembourg, which meant they had access to the Sarkisian Collective's research, which implied that they and the Sarkisians' patrons were one and the same."
• Mr Hansen, alias for Kaunus in London; first encountered in Europe in Autumn ("That's not a name. That's a place"), and again in Europe at Midnight.
• Crispin, runs the EU; basically, he's a CEO or an emperor
• Les Coureurs des Bois, per Kaunus: "is not an organisation. If you really need a metaphor, I suppose the closest I could come would be to say that Les Coureurs are an anarchy." … "I expect it looks as if we're quite high up in the hierarchy, and from time to time it suits us to pretend we are, but really we're not. We just go where we're needed, to keep things running smoothly. We're … diplomats, if you like; a point of contact between Les Coureurs and governments."
• The treatise, explains how the Community is created; was passed through the Whitton-Whyte generations until at some point "the chain got broken and the family secret wound up leaving the Community and eventually Roland Sarkisian inherited it from his mother"
• The House By The Sea, a proof of concept of a pocket universe that Roland Sarkisian created for the European powers; now an entire planet
• Deus ex machina, a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and/or abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence
• Molson, "Would it help if I told you my name was really Stephen?"

Europe at Dawn

Rebellion, 2018; audiobook: Recorded Books, 2018.

• Pete and Angie, owners of the Grace Mercy, a fifty-foot narrow boat for English canals
• Alan Strang, plump man who found Pete and Angie a sponsor to help them buy the boat
• Alice May, works in Scottish embassy in Tallinn; Cultural Section Liaison
• Rob, Alice's husband; poet
• Selina Brooks, Alice's mate from the Cultural Section
• Tim Rivington, Cultural Section Attaché
• Nicky, the Ambassador; despises the English in general and Rob in particular
• Holyrood, headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Harry, Scottish Foreign Intelligence Service; the new spook
• Andy Polsloe, assistant to film director; New Zealander
• Nikolai, running the lights and sound at the Butt-Shaped Cat bar; from Estonia's ethnic Russian community; former boyfriend of Alice before Rob
• Meg, head of embassy security
• Mart, embassy security guard
• Antonia, embassy HR
• Benno, a young teenaged refugee due to the climate catastrophe in the Sahel; now living on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean
• Stav, another refugee, a couple years older than Benno
• Ringo, a despot, the unofficial chieftain of the island, surrounded by his band of enforcers; tries to create an independent state of the island, called Aegea
• Strang, the "UN Man" with the Panama hat
• Professor Sepp Weisz, Forensic anthropologist at the University that Selina suggests Alice take the skull to
• Ben, the name Benno is using since he was inducted into Les Coureurs and began working in Europe
• Hrádek nad Nisou, near where the Czech, German and Polish borders met in a T-junction of frontiers, a tripoint
• Victoria, woman talking to Alice on the phone, Les Coureurs des Bois
• Kaunas, Les Coureurs des Bois; Alice meets Victoria and Kaunas in the house Nikolai has given her directions to; three dead men are in the house: Rob, Harry, and someone Alice doesn't know
• Rückenfiguren, figures seen from behind
• Tomás, Portuguese, a former priest, a Jesuit defrocked for some transgression which he acknowledged but was unwilling to specify; an expert in antiquities, specifically, religious relics; he determines the skull is a woman
• Hispano Suizas, luxury automobiles
• Fritjof Nansen (Fram), a walk-in, a volunteer who Alice met to evaluate in a restaurant in Dortmund
• Elsie Purnell, English-sounding woman who tells Ben and Alice she wants to claim asylum; tells Alice a story which was impossible to believe
• Pais, Baku, Azerbaijan; son of a spy, criminal, doing a job for Rupert
• Rupert, formerly of the Campus (Europe in Autumn)
• Wilhelm Dancy Reading Group, Pais tells Rupert, "They're looking for the same thing you are, pretty much. But in bigger quantities. I'm not dealing with them, but I know a guy who was. He says they're really spooky. No sense of humour at all."
• Snell, Rupert present him with a proposal, which he has shared with his fellow board members in the Community; "A former member of the Presiding Authority, he was ideally-placed to put in a good word for people wanting to bring computer-controlled equipment into the Community."; at dinner, when Snell steps out of their private dining room, Rupert covertly puts the thing he purchased in Baku into Snell's brandy, where it dissolves
• The watch, someone slips a package into Gwen's postbox; she meets Rudi for lunch and gives him the watch, asking if he knows what it is about; he tells her he'll look into it. On the back, it is engraved: To Jan, Manager Of The Year
• Michael, head of the Community's Security Service
• Ambrose Ruston, president of the Community
• Herr Professor Heinz Mundt, his original research had led him to a low-tech way of manipulating the topology of spaces so that they connected somehow with other, more distant, spaces; in Europe in Winter, it appeared Mundt had been assassinated in the Sakha Republic; now it appears a chap named Penrose died, and Mundt, who had been in the hands of the Community at the time of the assassination, was abducted by someone else
• Colonel Megan Chapman (Meg), First Battalion Grenadier Guards, commander in charge of Heathrow Airport, now located in the middle of Ernshire, the Community
• Polonium, the radiation poisoning that eventually killed Snell
• The Switch, when Heathrow ended up in the middle of Ernshire, and an equivalent amount of Ernshire ended up in London
• Ronald Lamb, US air marshal, eventually became head of the Civilian Authority at Heathrow
• Costas, works security for the Line at a remote, disused border crossing near Novosibirsk, in the forest of Sibir
• Anton, works with Costas
• The Realm, a square mile of the Community that had, in similar fashion to Heathrow, erupted into Luxembourg a year or so before the Heathrow Event
• Dr Foz West, meets Rupert at the library at the University in Nottingham
• Professor Henson, Rupert's alias at the University in Nottingham
• Wilhelm Dancy Archive, related to what Pais told Rupert about earlier, the Wilhelm Dancy Reading Group, which evolved into a charitable foundation providing medical imaging machines for hospitals in Azerbaijan
• Andrew Molson, a photo in the Wilhelm Dancy Archive of Wilhelm Dancy in East Berlin reveals that he is Andrew Molson
• Saaremaa, on an island not far from Lahemaa National Park and next to the island where Liiva is; near Kuressaare
• Crazy Old Recluse Lady, living in Saaremaa; Alice; gets drugged and taken off to meet with Rudi in Lviv, Ukraine
• Ben, the face in the background of the photo showing the assassination of Penrose just before Mundt was abducted
• Pärnu, Estonia, where Rudi was born, and where Alice stashed her photos of the skull
• Canals, it was always about canals, not railroads or tunnels
• Kaunus, per Rudi: "Kaunas doesn't want to be found and I can't ask Crispin for the use of the Machine again, he was annoyed enough when we used it to process the map. Even if we did find Kaunas, he wouldn't tell us the truth. He's like my father; he works for everyone."
• Victoria, on the boat with Mundt; Rupert knows Victoria as Araminta; Andrew Molson joins them; Victoria calls Molson Stephen
• Rachel and Alex, have the boat that takes Rudi, Gwen, Seth, and Alice back

Cold Water

Rebellion Publishing, 2022; audiobook: Penguin Books, 2022; via Apple audiobooks.

• Carey Tews, ex-member of Les Coureurs, journalist, licensed private detective (first showed up briefly in Hungary in Europe in Winter)
• Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland, between Opole and Wrocław to the northwest and Katowice and Krakó to the southeast; near the borders of Czechia and Slovakia
• Kaunus, Coureur ("That's a place, not a name"); meets Carey in the botanical garden in Gliwice, shows her a photo of her ex-lover (Maksim) and tells her he's dead and they want her to look into it; Kaunus shows up throughout the Fractured Europe Sequence
• Hindenberg, a polity that had formed in southwest Poland
• Breslau, city in Hindenberg
• Byron & Pru, Carey's stepfather and stepmother
• Złoties, currency in Poland
• Major Krista Lindmaa, Estonian cop in Tallinn
• Tallinn, Estonia, where Krista lives; suggers a massive power outage
• Lenna Rüütel, journalist, drunk a lot
• Maksim Ilyich Petrauskas, born in Wilno, Lithuania
• Robert Wareham, journalist working in Tallinn who wrote about Maksim's accident
• Sergii N, an Estonian of Russian ethnicity; owned a business in Tallinn; a small-time hoodlum; died at the hands of the Tallinn police
• Mr Reinsalu, in charge of Justice for Sergii campagne, Pärnu, Estonia; hires Lenna
• Dima, works for Reinsal
• Ratusz, a historic administrative building in countries that adopted the Magdeburg rights such as the Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and others
• Stefan, Coureurs of Gliwice; very rude to Carey, telling her the local Coureurs didn't want her there; Maksim had something going on in Gliwice that upset the local Coureurs
• "Who are you?", asked by an unfamiliar woman's voice in impeccable BBC English, who then hangs up; Carey receives the call while visiting the scene of the accident with Robert Wareham
• Michał, farmer at the scene; lives in his son's farmhouse next to the scene; friend of Wareham; was Emeritus Pofessor of Mechanical Engineering at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków until he retired; never saw the tractor driver before; Carey realizes that the police got to the scene way too fast
• Trans-Europe Rail Route, extending itself, kilometre by kilometre, from Portugal towards the Russian Far East
• The Xian Flu, "More than fifty million in Europe, they said, at least twice that in the United States. India was a mass grave. In China… nobody knew."; first discussed in Europe in Autumn, which was published in 2014; "The media dubbed it the 'Xian Flu', and the name stuck, even though some studies suggested that it had travelled west to east rather than the other way around."; ends Carey's plans to travel Europe after graduating university; then Byron dies of the flu after making a run to the grocery store
• Frank, friend of Byron; sometimes played sax with him; picks up his body
• Markus, Krista's friend; Geography lecturer; books them a hotel room in Helsinki for the first Christmas since Krista's father died; now she has no family
• KaPo, Estonia's Internal Security Service; Kaitsepolitseiamet
• Tamburlaine, Chechen warlord based in Hamburg; looking to establish a beach-head in Tallinn
• Politseikolonelleinent (Colonel) Paavo Tamm, Krista's superior
• Colonel Jakobson, Internal Affairs
• Lieutenant Vainola, present in the meeting with Jakoboson
• The Colonel, Krista's father; passed away recently; accused of murdering Sergii, triggering an Internal Affairs investigation
• Oskar Kross, Krista's father's lawyer
• Hanseatic times, medieval
• Anatoly, old acquaintance of Carey; dour Russian jack-of-all-spycraft trades; comes to Gliwice to help Carey; "Tolya"
• Yegor, ex-FSB colonel; collaborated with Maksim; arranged for his cremation
• Raphael, local journalist, Luxembourg; helps Carey get in touch with people who can help her get into Spain
• Witek Mazowiecki, crematorium manager; Les Coureurs
• Konrad, when Carey is at the crematorium looking at Maksim's ashes, she recalls that he called himself Konrad when she first met him
• Rocketman, a small gang in Gliwice; smart, technical; Makshim was negotiating with them shortly after he arrived about three months ago; then wars broke out between other gangs, businesses were torched; there were a lot of deaths
• Rupert of Hentzau, one of the names signed in the condolence book at the crematorium
• Magda, teenage girl computer whiz, a "pianist"; hired by Carey and Anatoly
• Konrad, Les Coureurs des Bois; meeting with Carey arranged by Raphael to help her get into Spain
• Oskari, Les Coureurs des Bois; Konrad's companion
• Verónica Torrejón Hernández, name in Carey's Spanish passport
• Miguel, alias that Konrad uses as Verónica's husband on the train trip to Madrid
• The Line, Trans-Europe Rail Route; a railway and independent country that bisects the European continent
• Kustav, works for Krista
• Erik Lill, Krista's father's secretary, sidekick, aide de camp, confidante, driver, and general bagman
• Boksi, young expert counterfeiter of documents, a "cobbler"; Magda's cousin; showed up wearing his school uniform
• Romek, young procurer of gadgets and other goods, a "blacksmith"
• Maart Salumäe, Estonian Prime Minister
• The Colonel, then the General, Anatoly's father; in Rus's Security Services
• Luis, appears in Madrid to instruct Carey about being a Coureur
• Marthe Schiller, looks similar to Carey; Maksim arranged for Carey to take her place on a journey so Marthe can escape her marriage; her husband, Henning, who is head of one of Europe's great criminal empires; Sophie van Ost is the alias used in the passport
• Peter Schiller, heir to one of Europe's great criminal empires; Peter gave Carey a card with his phone number to say thanks for her helping his mother escape her marriage to his father, Henning
• Sergii Volkov, Sergii N's full name; small time criminal and wife beater; sort of a bad luck mascot
• Erik Lill, the officer who investigated Sergii's death; "There was no mystery about it. He had three or four times the legal driving limit of alcohol in his blood. He was blind drunk, stepped off the kerb without looking, a car clipped him, he cracked his head on the pavement, and goodbye Sergii." Lill has MS and is in a wheelchair
• Jerzy, boss of Rocketman; Maksim hired them to conduct electronic surveillance on the Diana Academy of English
• Wareham, reveals to Carey that he's a stringer for the English Intelligence Services
• JE Brookshire, Country of Texas Foreign Intelligence Bureau; spy recruiter
• The Community, a literal pocket universe⩘  congruent with Europe
• Ambrose Ruston, president of the Community
• Kay Philby, alias for Marthe Schiller; suspected of being the European end of a human trafficking route out of the Middle East
• Stepan, ethnic Russian Estonian from Krista's childhood, a quasi-uncle, a Tallinn detective who had unilaterally elected himself part of her family when her mother died
• Alyosha, the Bronze Soldier (Bronzovyj Soldat), Soviet war memorial; a statue of a soldier in Red Army uniform above the graves of a dozen or so Russian soldiers; The Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn
• Michael, Community security service head
• Arcadia, another pocket universe, this one congruent with the U.S. portion of North America
• Eric, Arcadia security service head
• Luis, reappears to be Carey's post-Coureurs contact
• Kristjan Alver, sits down at Krista's table in an almost empty hotel dining room; seems to be with some branch of Estonian secret police, but won't say which; tells Krista her father is almost certainly innocent and that she can return to her life and work; congratulates her on her promotion (to Colonel)
• Maart Salumäe, when younger and in the Tallinn police; filmed pissing on the Bronze Soldier statue; Krista suspects it is fake but knows many people will believe it is authentic
• Bechdel Test, a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction; asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.
• Latzis, a.k.a., Loppi, owns the boat (an old minesweeper turned into a civilian yacht) moored outside Peter's place; takes Carey and crew to Finland