The first book in the Century series, 2010

DEWAR FAMILY

Senator Cameron Dewar

Ursula Dewar, his wife

Gus Dewar, their son

VYALOV FAMILY

Josef Vyalov, businessman

Lena Vyalov, his wife

Olga Vyalov, their daughter

OTHERS

Rosa Hellman, journalist

Chuck Dixon, school friend of Gus’s

Marga, nightclub singer

Nick Forman, thief

Ilya, thug

Theo, thug

Norman Niall, crooked accountant

Brian Hall, union leader

REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth president

William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state

Joseph Daniels, secretary of the navy

FITZHERBERT FAMILY

Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz

Princess Elizaveta, called Bea, his wife

Lady Maud Fitzherbert, his sister

Lady Hermia, called Aunt Herm, their poor aunt

The Duchess of Sussex, their rich aunt

Gelert, Pyrenean mountain dog

Grout, Fitz’s butler

Sanderson, Maud’s maid

OTHERS

Mildred Perkins, Ethel Williams’s lodger

Bernie Leckwith, secretary of the Aldgate branch of the Independent Labour Party

Bing Westhampton, Fitz’s friend

Marquis of Lowther, “Lowthie,” rejected suitor of Maud

Albert Solman, Fitz’s man of business

Dr. Greenward, volunteer at the baby clinic

Lord “Johnny” Remarc, junior War Office minister

Colonel Hervey, aide to Sir John French