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The Characters 
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Robert Boston - is the central character in the Robert Boston Spy
Series. Even though Boston is 36 years old in the first episode, Entering the Privacy Zone, he is still considered a young spy with the Special Investigation Branch (SIB). Boston spent twelve years with the Navy as a Naval Intelligence officer and then three years with the U.S. Secret Service guarding the President of the United States. It was during this stint with the Secret Service that Director Bradley from SIB spotted him and agressively recruited him for SIB. Born and raised in Baltimore, Boston was educated at Annapolis. His education continued with the Navy in the aftermath of the Vietnam War where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Boston developed expertise not only in intelligence but also in flying Navy helicopters. He also became a sharpshooter of remarkable skill.
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Admiral Joseph Hiram King - The criminal mastermind behind the plot to place plastic-faced duplicates into high seats of the U.S. government. A talented Rickover protégée, King was educated at West Point and came from Providence where he had spent his youth sailing and dreaming of being in the Navy as a commander of submarines. Later, King did command submarines and was instrumental in the development of nuclearizing them in the U.S. After 25 years of service to the Navy, he fell into disgrace and was ousted. Tall and painfully thin, he continued to wear his Admiral's uniform and demanded allegiance from everyone around him. During the explosive destruction of the Oceanus II, he was badly burned and crippled. He spent the rest of his days in a wheelchair, being tracked by Robert Boston. But none of this hindered his criminal plot. Finally, he was killed by Billy Mackay who performed this dastardly deed with Robert Boston's pistol.
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Hans Mueller - The beefy German terrorist who headed the German terrorist group known as the Devonon. With no home base, Mueller traveled the world on his yacht, engaging in criminal enterprise wherever he found it. He cajoled his way into Admiral King's criminal endeavor with the gift of Don Franco Corlucci's severed hand in a box and the Transducer which he stole from a German inventor after killing him and burning his lab. Georgina Pallerino of high society New York, the recipient of the long haired gift dogs Mueller showed to Admiral King, was Mueller's girlfriend. The portly German weighed in at 375 and stood 5 foot eight inches. All his cigars were Cuban and his suits Italian. Robert Boston never met Hans Mueller but may in a later episode.
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Kathleen Fair - Once a capable SIB spy, she suffered an emotional breakdown when she witnessed the killing of her partner, Rab Henry, by Admiral King. It was an explosive device attached to the engine of Henry's car that did him in. After that, Kathleen was sent to St. Guthrie where she remained until she met Robert Boston. Attractive and intelligent, Kathleen had spent nearly ten years with SIB before the tragedy. She was married to Simon Fair, a successful Washington politician, who divorced her after the tragedy and her removal to St. Guthrie.
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Director Hugh Bradley - Bradley had originally worked for the CIA as a counter-terrorism specialist, spending about 10 years with that department. When he saw how much work was being done on American turf to counteract terrorism, he presented his idea of developing a new branch of the CIA devoted to just that, stalking and foiling terrorism on American soil. This idea he called the Special Investigative Branch of the Central Intelligence Agency or SIB for short. His idea was so well received by the President that he immediately made Bradley the director of the program. Bradley was educated at Yale and came from aristocratic stock. He was a rugged individualist but savvy and refined in appearance. Of the 100 spies in his department, Hugh Bradley's favorite was always Robert Boston whom he recruited from the U.S. Secret Service.
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Dr. Billy Mackay - Mackay had drank too much Mogan David and Gentleman Jack during his years of training and smoked too many Camels and it showed in his gaunt, drawn appearance. In his late twenties, after completing medical school at prestigious Duke, he'd landed a residency in internal medicine at Walter Reed Medical Center. His father was the captain of a Navy frigate who ran afoul of Admiral King. King was instrumental in demoting Mackay's father, a demotion that Richard Mackay took hard. This resulted in heavy drinking for the senior Mackay and the destruction of Billy's home-life. Through some unseen fortitude, Billy excelled scholastically and made it through medical school. It was a matter of pure coincidence that he was doing a rotation with coroner Lou Brandt when Admiral King's dead imposter was brought in for autopsy. Billy Mackay's residency and medical license were revoked when he killed Admiral King.
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Dr. James Gallimore Ph.D - Gallimore had spent two decades as a CIA "shrink". He was trained as a behavioral psychologist at Brown and had gone to work immediately for the government. He quickly became friends with Director Bradley when Bradley was working with the CIA's Counter-terrorism unit. It was Bradley who recommended Gallimore as the Coordinator for the St. Guthrie safe house program, a position Gallimore wanted when the stress of his position with the CIA had led to a heart attack while he was in his early fifties. The mountain environment and slow pace of St. Guthrie suited him well. His leprechaun like mannerisms and Mark Twain appearance made him unique and interesting to speak to and, along with his story-telling skill, easy to listen to. When he went to St. Guthrie, Gallimore dropped the Dr. title in front of his name and the Ph.D after it. Robert Boston didn't know that James Gallimore was a trained psychologist and the author of a revered text entitled, Overcoming the Dynamics of Work-Related Stress. Neither did he know that James Gallimore was the creator of a popular behavioral technique known as Vocal Stress Release.
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David VanAngel - VanAngel had become an intelligence specialist with the Marines during his time in Vietnam. At 46 years old, he still had a full head of hair and looked like a youthful 30 years old. After returning home from his work with intelligence in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, VanAngel had turned down an offer to work with the CIA and had taken an offer from the FBI instead because of his interest in undercover work. Because of his specialty, VanAngel had very little contact with Hatchet Man Newby and no contact whatsoever with Cauldor and Helms. Most significant about VanAngel was his separation from his family who thought he was dead. VanAngel justified this separation by believing that what he was doing for the FBI was intensely important and he was protecting his family by leaving them anonymous. The friendship between VanAngel and Robert Boston was remarkable and had its roots in the crisis that originally brought them together.
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Sergeant Geoffrey Lane - Sergeant Lane was the only military officer from a branch of the military other than the Navy that Admiral King had confidence in. A former Marine Gunnery Sergeant and drill instructor, Lane had won Admiral King's confidence when he had engineered the theft of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and a cache of assault rifles for him. The Marines searched a ten mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and gave up after a week. He was devoted to Admiral King to the point of being a sycophant and King made him the supervisor of The Old Mariner's Home and thus the security officer for that approach into the Chandler's Cave. Lane had spent twenty years with the Marines and had seen combat in Vietnam. At forty-four years old, he was a strong and athletic black man who trained in karate religously and boasted that he was an expert with the hand held "bone breaker" or quirt.
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Peter Lyons - Lyons had spent decades working with the British MI6 as a spy before a disappointing interdepartmental clash had disillusioned him with that agency and he came to America to work fort he CIA. Lyons was a spy of the old order, a clever tactician with an IQ of 186. He had trained at Oxford and was a chemical engineer by trade, holding a master's degree in that discipline. He hd also served for eight years in the Royal Navy as an officer and was a survivor of a British ship sank by a German U-Boat during World War II. Lyons was fond of Robert Boston because of Director Bradley's commendation of his to the old spy. Peter Lyons was in his 70's when he met Boston at the Potomac Ship & Barge Company but he was still healthy with a head full of hair and a penchant for smoking Meershaum pipes filled with cavendish tobacco.
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