
Footfall
by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THE DISCOVERERSLinda Crichton Gillespie, a Washington debutante
Jeanette Crichton, her sister
Dr. Richard Owen, astronomer
Dr. Mary Alie Mouton, astronomer
Major General Edmund Gillespie, USAF astronaut
WASHINGTON
David Coffey, President of the United States
Mrs. Jeanne Coffey, First Lady
The Honorable Wesley T. Dawson, a Congressman from California
Mrs. Carlotta Trujillo Dawson, his wife
Roger Brooks, Special Assignments Reporter, Washington Post
James Frantza, White House Chief of Staff
Henry Morton, Vice President
Dr. Arthur Hart, Secretary of State
Hap Aylesworth, Special Assistant to the President for Political Affairs
Ted Griffin, Secretary of Defense
Admiral Thorwald Carrell, National Security Advisor
Peter McCleve, Attorney General
Tim Rosenthal, Secretary of the Treasury
Connie Fuller, Secretary of Commerce
Arnold Riggs, Secretary of Agriculture
Jack Clybourne, Presidential Protection Unit, Secret Service
THE SOVIETS
Academician Pavel Aleksandrovich Bondarev, Director, Lenin Institute
Lorena Polinova, his secretary and mistress
Marina Nikolayevna Bondarev, his wife
Boris Ogarkov, Party Secretary at the Institute
Andrei Pyatigorskiy, Assistant Director, Lenin Institute
General Nikolai Nikolayevich Narovchatov, Party Third Secretary, later
Party First Secretary
Chairman Anatoliy Vladimirovich Petrovskiy, Chairman of the Supreme
Soviet
Ilya Trusova, Chairman of the KGB
Dmitri Parfenovich Grushin, KGB officer
Marshal Leonid Edmundovich Shavyrin, Marshal of the Long Range Strategic
