《Icon》 by
Frederick Forsyth 1996
To understand to read this book, you gotta have the
following vocabulary to comprehend the story.
Vocabs 1 –
Hovel – 破小屋
Partisan - Person devoted to a party, group
Grouse - kinda bird
Hinterland –
the land behind the coast or the banks of river, far from city
GI BILL –
help veteran army
Saunter –
walk relax
Intractable –
hard to manage
Feebly –
weakly
Buffoon –
clown
Genial –
kind, sympathetic
Hitherto –
till now
Emasculated –
make weak
Espionage –
spying
Fathom –
comprehend
Aristocracy –
government by person of high rank
Nondescript –
not having a definite character
Mordant –
sarcastic
Geriatric –
medical care for old people
defector – abandon country and join opposition
debrief – ask soldier about completed mission
defector – abandon country and join opposition
debrief – ask soldier about completed mission
Bona fide –
real
Deranged –
mad
Kudos – praised
Anecdote –
short and funny story
Vocab 2 –
Polemicist –
someone who engage in controversial debate
Ciphers – a code
fluke – luck
fluke – luck
Consignment –
batch of goods to be delivered
Lynchpin –
important people
Protracted –
long time
Whittle –
cut thin slice
Privation – deprived
Souq - arab market
Rebuff-
reject
Embezzle –
take money from organization
Denounce – 谴责
Plodders –
people who walk slowly, heavy steps
Dross-
rubbish
Steadfast –
resolute
Orthodox –
traditional
Abode- home
Twaddle –
nonsense
arbiter – someone who settle dispute
arbiter – someone who settle dispute
Seminary –
training college for rabbis or priest
Tubby –
short and fat
Seaboard –
coastline
Geriatric –
old people
Cenotaph –
war monument
Vocab 3
Phial - a
small cylindrical glass bottle, typically used for medical samples or for
potions or medicines.
Grandiosity
- stylish and impressive, but fake one
Effigy – sculpture of a person
Dispel –
drive away
Teeter-
balancing unsteadily
Dismount –
get off a horse
List of
characters
Cherkassov –
died, of Russian Homeland Party
Vladimir
Zhirinovsky – Liberal Democratic Party demagogue
Igor Kamarov
- Union of Patriotic Forces, ultra right, avoided TV interviews
Kuznetsov –
translator for Kamarov
Leonid
Zaitsev – cleaner who stole file
Akopov –
Secretary to Kamarov, file stolen from his room
Arthur Dean –
Silver Deep
Bob Collins –
Sakitumi
Jason Monk –
father is forrest warden. Jason speaks French, and had brief affair with his
French teacher. Posted to Kenya and Russia
Carey Jordan
– CIA Deputy Director of Operation
Corporal
Meadows- Russian Embassy
Colonel
Nikolayev - Rabbits boss
Grishin – 2nd
CD Colonel of Internal Security
Black Guards
– 6000 Young Man
Nikolai
Turkin – His son got Malaria while in Kenya, Born in Omsk of Western Siberia in
1951, Father engineer for KGB foreigh intelligent, First CD
Celia Stones
– Works at British embassy in Moscow
Hugo Gray –
Celine Stone lover
Colonel
Lysander – move to East Berliner as Commander K of Directorate K
Jock
McDonald – head of station for British SIS in Moscow.
Bruce Fields
– Deputy to Jock McDonald.
Aldrich Ames
– 1983 head of CI Soviet SE. 20 years with CIA. 3 postings – Turkey, New York,
Mexico. Also to Rome, and Czech. Brings things to Andropov.
James
Angleton – CI Head. Search mole. 3 posting outside Langley, check finance of
Agents.
Ken
Mulgrew- helps Ames. In charge of
personnel Booxze with Ames. Help Ames become EU chief of Soviet External ops –
handled asset outside USSR (except Lyssander and Orion). Hated monk.
Igor
Shurygin – head of CI KGB
Sergei
Bokhan – officer in Soviet Military. Intel in Athens, say would die if back to
Moscow.
Ames Shopping
bag information of 14 mole. 10 shot, 2 escaped and live in America
Controller
of the Eastern Hemispher – David Brownlow
Sir Henry
Coombs – head of SIS
Vladimir
Mechulayev – Director K of first CD
Major
Solomin – Yemen, hated rich Russians. Friended Monk.
Norman Kelson
– joined Armenia ship
Chernov –
Inspector for case of break in
Khrenkov –
Ames delivered shopping bag to him
Brian
Worthing – 48 Editor Daily Telegraph
Mark
Jefferson – Staffer, regular contribute to main feature page, short, interview
Kamarov and killed.
Novikov – homicide inspector. Spies for Fields. Discover Rabbits is clearner to Kamarov
Novikov – homicide inspector. Spies for Fields. Discover Rabbits is clearner to Kamarov
William
Casey – Director CIA. Request budget but rejected, Sold arms to Iran.
Valeri
Yuryevich Kruglov – Soviet Embassy. Mid 70s posting in Mexico City- Latin
American expert. 20 years contract in Soviet foreign service. Son of diplomat,
speaks Spanish and English. Columbia > Mexico > Argentina > Moscow
Pavel Volsky
– homicide
William Webster
– new CIA director
Umar GUnayev
– 28 years old. Almost killed by assasin at Oman. 10 years in 1st
CD, tired of no promotion and left KGB. Chechen underworld west of the urals
Inspector
Lapatin – follow up Mark Jeffereson murder.
Yevgenia
Rozina, New York, register her son Ivan Ivanov Blinov, Russian-Jew refugee,
seek asylum when in Vienna.
Ivan
Yevdokimovich Blinov – 1938 father university physics teacher, mother school
teacher foir mathematic. Married Valya at 30 but no child – librarian and
English teacher.
Sir Reginal
Parfitt – Permenant Under Secretary – 5 wise man
Sir Nigel
Irvine – 1943 British Army in Italy, wounded, back to England to recovery.
Coombs passed cdocument to him
Milton
Bearden – supervised covert war in Afghanistan. New head of SE, want to rid of
Ames
Delphi – The oracle in highest reaches of Moscow foreign ministry. (not sure)
Delphi – The oracle in highest reaches of Moscow foreign ministry. (not sure)
Council of
Lincoln – by invitation only. Quality, patriotic and experience civil servant.
Must be retired. Private sector ones can remain in corp. Meet 1999 summar. 6
Brits and 34 Americans. Meet once a year
Lord Peter
Carrington – ex Sec-Gen of NATO.
Sault
Nathanson – host
Elliot
Richardson – former AG and American Investment banker
5 days
meeting : -
Day 1 – geo-politic,
strategic and economic
Day 2 – same
Day 3 –
hearing and discuss
Day 4 - plenary
Day 5 –
Further action and recommendation.
Vladimir
Muchulayev – Monk asset
Litvinov –
young filmmaker
Economic Committee
– Raph Brooke
First CD –
KGB rename to SVR
Second CD –
rename to FSB
4 spies –
Lyssander, Orion, Delphi and Pegasus
Major
Forbes- Lord of Scotland
George Sims –
of SAS regiment, teach monk how to fight
Danny – from
London – communicator, introduce laptop and credit card to Monk
Alexei II –
Divided Russia into a hundre bishoprics. Enable him to create new and younger
bishops. Visited every
Silence the
violent anti-semetic
Anthony of
London = based in Kensington Orthodox. Fake by Monk
Maxim
Klimosvsky (work for Alexei, admires Komarov, bring coffee to Alexie and spies
for Grishin.
Dimitri Borodin – Detective Inspector homicide, contacted Grishin.
Nicolai Nikolayev – 73 years old, Tank man, son of engineer. Survive Blitzkrieg. Brings 10 years old sister run on train to east. Works in factor and build KUI tanks. At 25, Lieutenant-Colonel at Potsdam . At 30, Command special ops tank in Hungary Uprising. Chairman KGB for 15 years. Sec-Gen Communist USSR. Pissed Andropov. At 42 Major General – Prague uprising. 1973 advisor to Syria. At 53 Colonel-General to Afghanistan. Famed for 3 legendary – banned hazing, better food for army, unit pride and intensive training. Speaks English and French
Dimitri Borodin – Detective Inspector homicide, contacted Grishin.
Nicolai Nikolayev – 73 years old, Tank man, son of engineer. Survive Blitzkrieg. Brings 10 years old sister run on train to east. Works in factor and build KUI tanks. At 25, Lieutenant-Colonel at Potsdam . At 30, Command special ops tank in Hungary Uprising. Chairman KGB for 15 years. Sec-Gen Communist USSR. Pissed Andropov. At 42 Major General – Prague uprising. 1973 advisor to Syria. At 53 Colonel-General to Afghanistan. Famed for 3 legendary – banned hazing, better food for army, unit pride and intensive training. Speaks English and French
Dr Lancelot
Probyn – Expert in Romanov Dynasty
FAPSI –
Federal Agency for Government communication and Information
Brian Marks –
ex solder and speaks Russian
Rusakov –
turn down by many seminary. Small monetary in Siberia, no Parish. 5 years in
labour camp. Speaks very well on TV and watched by millions.
Kuznetsov –
errand boy for Grishin. Go to hotel pretend return lighter
General Yuri
Drozdov – old spymaster. KGB ops on eastern seaboard of USA. Trains illegal spy
Bernstein –
Jew banker, approached by Monk to stop TV broadcast for Komarov.
Tsar
Nicholas I – son of Duke Nicholas
Alexender II
ALexender
III
Nicholas II
Zyuganov –
neo communist Socialist Union candidate.
GUVD – Moscow
organized Crime Control Department .
General
Valentin Petrovsky – head of GUVD. Owns Rapid Reaction Force - SOBR
Federal Militia – called OMON
Federal Militia – called OMON
Biggest
Mafia – Dollgoruki funding UPF.
President
Candidate
UPF
Komarov -45%
Socialist
Union Zyuganov – 28%
Markov –
Democratic Alliance – 10%
Komarov
Allies –
1)
Presidential Security Guard – 30k armed men commanded
by General Sergei Korin
2)
Interior Ministry 150k
3)
Mafia
4)
Black Guards 6000
5)
Young Combantants 20k
Target of
Coup – 2 primary and 5 secondary
Primary 1 –
Greate TV Complex by 2k Black Guards
Primary 2 –
Kremlin by 4k Black Guards
Secondary 1 –
Mayor Office
Secondary 2
Interior Ministry (MVD)
Secondary 3 – Airfied
Secondary 3 – Airfied
Secondary 4 –
Omon Barracks
FSB – Alpha Group
and Vympel are target ally by Grishin
Alpha –
attack Interior Ministry + OMON Barracks + SOBR Barracks.
Vympel –
attack airfield and army base
Mafia –
supply 2 k men to White House and 1.2k men to Presidential Office
OMON
Commander – General Ivan Kovlovsky
Dzerzhinsky –
Special Ops Mechanized Infantry-created as an anti coup defence since 1991
Deputy
Defence Minister - Butov