Characters
Some of these people are entirely invented. Some of them really lived. We never blur which is which.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Adey Daniels
Adey Daniels collects fugitives at Heathrow as former military comrade of Alex. Adey Daniels received nickname Punches from Comrades nicknamed him Punches after he responded to a mugging attempt in Magaluf with explosive punches and flying kicks.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Agent Goossen
Agent Goossen is partner of Maleric's partner; Harry jokes the pair sound like Maverick and Goose. Agent Goossen functions alongside Agent Maleric in operational partnership.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Agent Maleric
Agent Maleric is described as Tall, broad-shouldered, tanned, dressed in immaculate black suit. Agent Maleric is mocked by Harry Turner as Harry immediately mocks his name by calling him 'Maveric'.
Lead — The Utopia Treaty
Alex
Thought he knew his father's secrets. Discovering Utopia changes everything — and puts him at the centre of the fight against the Treaty.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Alisa
Alisa is member of Member of Harry's specialist team. Alisa is member of MI5 team; formerly in politics, later police profiler and lead criminal investigator; headhunted by MI5.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Alistair Proctor
Alistair Proctor is nicknamed 'The Paperboy' originally for delivering obscure facts, later for distributing drugs in hollowed-out newspapers. Alistair Proctor is an exceptionally talented chemist who later moves into legitimate pharmaceutical research at NextGen Pharmaceuticals.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Andy N
Andy N appears in The Utopia Treaty.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Andy Nightingale
Andy Nightingale collects fugitives at Heathrow as former military comrade of Alex.
Appears in The Utopia Conspiracy
Anne Simmons
Anne Simmons is deceased mother of Lauren Simmons. Anne Simmons is Lauren's deceased mother.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Brad
Brad is a relaxed, talkative freight worker unconcerned about passengers' identities. Brad entertains passengers with stories about unusual cargo, dangerous freight and pandemic supply missions.
Appears in The Utopia Conspiracy
Brucks Randell
Brucks Randell is an actor capable of impersonating Hughes. Brucks Randell accumulated serious gambling debt to Sam Giancana Years earlier Brucks had accumulated a serious gambling debt to Sam Giancana.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Captain Albert Thompson
Captain Albert Thompson Joins the Special Boat Service in his early twenties. Captain Albert Thompson specialises in Covert operations, maritime missions, and special-forces leadership.
The Organisation — a forthcoming Utopia novella
Dan McKensie & Rosa Bellantoni
Two agents of the Organisation that pulls the strings behind history's greatest cover-ups. Dan is the hidden man; Rosa is his razor-sharp match.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty & The Utopia Conspiracy
Dean
Dean is cyber-security specialist in Cyber-security specialist and member of Harry's pursuit team.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Elena
Elena takes Frank Mitchell directly to Robert Maheu's hidden residence after hijacking.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty & The Utopia Conspiracy
Gina Hammond
Gina Hammond becomes responsible for Gina becomes responsible for much of the day-to-day operation of the Cave. Gina Hammond is administrator of Administrator of the Cave.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Harry Turner
Harry Turner is an MI5 operative specialising in tracking fugitives. Harry Turner hacked as teenager MI5 computer systems and placed message on Robert Williams's computer demanding job interview.
Lead — The Utopia Treaty
Joe
Fights alongside Lauren and Alex to expose the Utopia Treaty while the government closes in.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty & The Utopia Conspiracy
John Simmons
John Simmons is father of Lauren Simmons. John Simmons has deteriorated since believing his daughter Lauren died; living in isolation, drinking heavily, neglecting himself.
The pilot — opening chapters
Keykey
The pilot flying Sam and Lauren over the Pacific when the aircraft goes down. A family man with everything to live for.
Appears in The Utopia Conspiracy
L. Wayne Rector
L. Wayne Rector is intended Hughes double for Onassis.
Lead — The Utopia Series
Lauren
Survives the crash with Sam in Book 1. By Book 2 she's escaped Utopia once already — and is dragged back into its orbit fighting to expose the Treaty.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Liam 'Raptor' Rater
Liam 'Raptor' Rater is from Manchester; grew up amid urban challenges before finding direction through military life.
Appears in The Utopia Conspiracy
Pamela
Pamela is appointed by Robert Kennedy as Maheu's primary contact overseeing the Marilyn operation. Pamela assists with the Marilyn Monroe operation.
The Collector of Curiosities
Rex Pemberton
An antiques dealer whose Somerset emporium is full of relics with stories he won't quite tell straight. Some discoveries are more than collector's pieces.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Robert Williams
Robert Williams recruited Harry Turner into MI5's cyber-security team rather than prosecuting him. Robert Williams is boss and career sponsor of Boss and career sponsor to Harry Turner.
Lead — The Utopia Conspiracy
Sam
Washes ashore on Utopia with Lauren at the start of Book 1, and is drawn into the conspiracy the island was built to hide.
Appears in The Utopia Treaty
Sergeant Riptide
Sergeant Riptide creates fictional company Riptide AeroTech to support the cover operation. Sergeant Riptide has spelling variant Sargent Riptide appears in at least one introduction; Sergeant is the standard form.
Alex's ally — The Utopia Treaty
Tiny (Ben Harlow)
Alex's SAS brother-in-arms, 6'7" and built like a tank. When Alex sends a distress call, Tiny answers without hesitation — but is he still on Alex's side?
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Onassis is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Bob Marley
Bob Marley died from melanoma that spread through his body in May 1981.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee historical death attributed to Accidental shooting during *The Crow* production, March 1993. Brandon Lee is son of Bruce Lee.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee historical death attributed to Cerebral oedema in Hong Kong, aged thirty-two, July 1973. Bruce Lee died at age thirty-two, suddenly, despite exceptional physical fitness.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson died when their aircraft crashed in Iowa on 3 February 1959.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
D.B. Cooper
D.B. Cooper hijacked A man using the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 flight in the United States on 24 November 1971. D.B. Cooper demanded and received He demanded money and parachutes, received the ransom, and jumped from the aircraft.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Dr Walter Meyerhof
A real Stanford physicist (1922–2006) whose father won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His real research on wartime vaccines inspired the novel's fictional PHG.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Drew Pearson
Drew Pearson is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Elvis Presley
Born 8 January 1935, reported dead 16 August 1977. The Utopia Conspiracy doesn't dwell on his backstory — but he's the first real face Sam and Lauren find on the island's beach.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Ernest Cuneo
Ernest Cuneo is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Eva Cassidy
Eva Cassidy is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Frank Mitchell
Frank Mitchell is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
George Harrison
George Harrison is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Harry Blackstone
A stage magician whose mastery of illusion and misdirection draws Howard Hughes to him following his The Phantom Stallion act. In The Utopia Conspiracy, his craft is woven into the story of how the island was kept off every map.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Howard Robard Hughes Jnr
Businessman, pilot, entrepreneur, film producer — and the subject of one of history's most persistent fake-death theories. In The Utopia Treaty, Hughes' villa anchors Utopia's Southside.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby shoots and kills Lee Harvey Oswald two days after the assassination. Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on 24 November 1963, live on television.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
James Dean
James Dean is travelling in Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed Little Bastard with mechanic Rolf Wütherich and followed by Bill Hickman. James Dean Died 30 September 1955 following collision involving Porsche 550 Spyder en route to motor-racing event.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin died from heroin overdose aged twenty-seven in October 1970.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Jean Peters
Jean Peters is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison died in Paris aged twenty-seven in July 1971. Jim Morrison died in Paris at twenty-seven with no autopsy performed.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963 while travelling through the city.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
John Lennon
John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota in New York, December 1980.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Kid Cann
Kid Cann Isadore Blumenfeld, a notorious Minneapolis gangster known as Kid Cann. Kid Cann engaged in Activities include bootlegging, distribution, gambling, jury intimidation, bribery and criminal transport.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain historical death attributed to Suicide by gunshot in Seattle, April 1994.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and accused of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Malcolm X
Malcolm X is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her Los Angeles home in August 1962. Marilyn Monroe death officially attributed to Her death was officially attributed to acute barbiturate poisoning and classified as a probable suicide.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on 4 April 1968.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles on 25 June 2009 while preparing for his This Is It concert residency. Michael Jackson died from Acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Peter Lawford
Peter Lawford is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Robert Maheu
Robert Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine in 1917. Robert Maheu graduated from College of the Holy Cross and joined the FBI.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Robin Williams
Robin Williams died by suicide in August 2014. Robin Williams had severe Lewy body disease Examination after death revealed severe Lewy body disease.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen is a real historical figure woven into the Utopia Series.
Real person, referenced in the fiction
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas after attending a Mike Tyson fight in September 1996. Tupac Shakur died in hospital Several days after being shot in Las Vegas.