《Icon》 by Frederick Forsyth 1996

《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

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

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

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 – 2^nd 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

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 1^st 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)

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

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

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 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

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