Meet the Cast
Verity
The Many Names of VerityThe NarratorQueenieScottieEva SeilerFlight Officer Beaufort-StuartLady Julia Lindsay MacKenzie Wallace Beaufort-StewartJulieVerityKatherina HabichtThe Many Faces of VerityWh...
Margaret "Maddie" Brodatt
Margaret, Maddie, Kittyhawk, Käthe Habicht… we'll go with Maddie.Early in their friendship, Maddie "played Watson to her friend's giddy Sherlock Holmes" (1.11.XI.43.199), and the comparison to H...
Fräulein Anna Engel
Oh, Fräulein Engel. On-Duty-Female-Guard-Engel; the Slave Girl; just plain old Engel—call her what you want, but she's one of the bigger surprises in the whole book, and she's there partly to sh...
Jamie Beaufort-Stuart
Anybody who can maintain the sense of humor Jamie does about losing all his toes and four of his fingers to frostbite in the North Sea is someone we'd love to be friends with: we completely get why...
SS-Hauptsturmführer Amadeus von Linden
The Nazi officer in charge of the Ormaie Gestapo, Julie's interrogation, and her confession, von Linden is a man in a tight spot, and despite the fact that he's clearly made some bad life choices,...
Mitraillette / Gabrielle-Thérèse Thibaut
Mitraillette, whose code name is French for "submachine gun," is the elder daughter of the Thibaut family, the younger sister of Nazi collaborator Etienne Thibaut, and the second-in-command of Dama...
Paul
Ugh, Paul. The English SOE operative in charge of Damask circuit, Paul (not his real name, which we don't ever know) is one of those characters we hate and then feel bad for hating because he did h...
Georgia Penn
The American newspaper reporter who works on Nazi propaganda, Georgia Penn is yet another character who is not what she seems. According to Julie's narrative, Miss Penn is a total turncoat:She is n...
La Cadette / Amélie
The youngest child of the Thibaut family, Amélie, who mostly goes by her real name, gets away with a lot because she looks so sweet and innocent that no one suspects her. She's a friend to Maddie...
Damask
Damask is the code name of the eighty-three-year-old rose grower the Resistance circuit is named for: "The old woman—I should say elderly, not old. She is a refined sort of person—" (2.18.40)....
Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God / John Balliol
Not surprisingly, neither of these are his real name. Julie always refers to him as the "Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God" in a reference to Niccolò Machiavelli, autho...
Minor Characters
BerylBeryl is Maddie's working-class friend from Manchester who is with her when she sees her first plane crash and realizes the pilot is female. Later, Julie is envious of her easy life in Manches...