Hello
again! After my last post
about the Knight Agency, here’s the promised one about the main characters.
I promise to do my best not to spoil anything here. I’m also mainly going to
list the team and Jane’s friends from her ‘official life.’
Jane Browne: She’s the main and viewpoint
character. Jane is twenty-five and has been working as an active agent for
Branch Two for five years now. She started training for her job at ten - which
is pretty regular for her branch. Her specialities (specific abilities not
everyone in her branch has) are breaking and entering and assassination. She
already earned her nickname (not all agents gain one, it’s given to them by
their peers) and is known as the Ice Queen, because of her cold-blooded and
ruthless character. Jane’s official life is that of a rich heiress living apart
from her father (she doesn’t really have one, she’s an orphan), she’s situated
in London.
Steven
Quinn: He’s Jane’s
mentor, handler (meaning: general assistance), and father figure. Steven is
sixty-eight and a former agent of Branch Two. He spent twenty-three years of
his life teaching the future agents about assassination techniques and retired
from his post as instructor when Jane went into active service, so he could
become her handler. His specialities are assassination and piloting - as Jane
says once: you get something airborne, he can fly it. He has a nickname which
has already become legendary: the Reaper, because he killed over a thousand
enemies during his active service. Steven officially lives as a retired
businessman in a suburb of London.
Zackary
Brock: He’s a
Branch One agent, an exemplary soldier and leader. Brock is twenty-eight and
proved himself in the army before
becoming a Knight Agent. His path first crossed with Jane’s during a stakeout mission.
Later on he became part of a team investigating an internal threat to the
Agency and has become a partner Jane can thoroughly rely on during any kind of
mission. He’s also a trained and certified bodyguard. Brock has earned his
nickname as well, his colleagues call him the White Knight, because he’s a born
protector and always fights for what is right. Like all Branch One agents, he
lives directly in the compound.
Frank Lucas: He’s a Branch Three agent with the
ability to get everything everywhere (as his superior puts it once). Frank is
twenty-six and worked in several companies before being recruited by the
Agency. His path crossed Jane’s at the same time as Brock’s (and Liam’s),
during the same stakeout mission. He was also part of the same team later on.
Frank can get his hands on everything which might be needed and has a lot of
contacts on the black market. He lives in the compound as well, mostly for
practical reasons.
Liam Fawkes: He’s a Branch Four agents, an
excellent engineer and prolific inventor. Liam is twenty-four and was recruited
right out of university (which he attended early). Liam was part of the same
stakeout and investigation team. He invented several useful objects for Jane
already and will continue to do so, as you can’t leave him in a room with a box
of trash without him making something useful out of it. He is shy towards most
people, but very loyal to friends. He lives in the compound as well, mostly
because he spends most of his waking hours in the R&D department anyway.
Edith Grand: She’s a Branch One agent as well, a
very good and level-headed soldier. Grand is twenty-six and was recruited
around the same time around which she was overlooked again as member for a
special squad. She accompanied Jane on an investigation mission after Brock was
injured, standing in for her colleague, and became a regular member of the
team. She is an extremely good driver and can handle the large troop transports
of Branch One (and every other vehicle) with unparalleled ease. She’s unusually
tall and strong for a woman. Like Brock, she’s a trained and certified
bodyguard. Like every Branch One agent, she lives in the compound.
Sir Frederic
Powell: He’s Jane’s
and Steven’s superior, head of Branch Two. Sir Frederic is sixty-eight and
started training in the same year as Steven, they also went through some
missions together in the past. He is not a born leader (according to Sir Howard),
but leads the branch very well. Even though Jane’s briefing and debriefing
usually goes through Steven, there have been many cases in which he has briefed
her or the team himself - more often than not together with Sir Leonard. He
lives outside London, but often spends several days completely in the compound.
Sir Leonard
Adams: He’s Brock’s
and Grand’s superior, head of Branch One. Sir Leonard is seventy and a highly
respected former agent of his branch. He has a tight grip on his agents and
soldiers and doesn’t accept any misbehaviour. He also has a weak spot for both
Jane and Steven, who earned his respect the hard way. He has recently started
to ‘borrow’ Jane from Sir Frederic for rescue missions or other missions which
include scouting and/or ‘removing of obstacles’ (the latter usually happens
with a knife). He lives in the outskirts of London, not far from the compound.
Sir Howard
Blythe: He’s the
current head of the Knight Agency. Sir Howard is eighty-one and a former agent
himself (so far, the branch he belonged to has not been disclosed). He
considers the world his chessboard and his agents the chess pieces. He is a
highly accomplished chess player and an extremely experienced interrogation
specialist. He considers Jane his most powerful piece on the board, because she
is very versatile. As a result of this, he often gives her missions slightly
outside her realm of experience to extend her abilities. He has also taken to
teach both Jane and Brock chess, in order to make them more accomplished and
dangerous agents. He lives in Blythe Manor right above the compound.
Cynthia
Wilmington: She is
Jane’s best friend and closest confidante outside the Agency. Cynthia is
twenty-five and from a noble family. She is usually a very happy and hyper person
with a big heart and hidden steel in her personality. Since the death of her
mother, she has little contact with her father. She is in the process of taking
over her mother’s company and strives to become an accomplished businesswoman.
She has recently moved out of her apartment and now lives in a house she has
inherited from her mother, where she employs Martin, the butler her mother
hired shortly before she died. Cynthia and Martin are among the very few people
outside the Agency who know Jane’s true identity.
Stacy
McIntyre: She’s
another of Jane’s close friends. Stacy is twenty-three and comes from ‘old
money.’ She is a very flirty girl, but has started a long-term relationship recently.
Even though she usually takes things day by day, she’s not as superficial as
she might seem to others. She lives in her own apartment in London and is
usually happy with spending her days doing whatever she fancies at that time.
Myra Featherstone
(née Hooper): She’s
the third of Jane’s close friends. Myra is twenty-six and considered nouveau
riche by London’s high society. She’s a rather relaxed girl who likes driving
fast, vegetarian food, and her steady boyfriend Aaron. Recently, she married
him, but it didn’t happen without drama. Myra and Aaron now share a nice
apartment in London and are building up their life together.
Rush: Agent Rush from Branch One is a
steady thorn in Jane’s, Brock’s, and Grand’s collective side. He’s an arrogant
and sexist agent who considers women beneath him, but also is healthily afraid
of Jane - who has killed him in several messy ways in her mind over time.
These
are all recurring characters (including Aaron Featherstone, who doesn’t have
his own paragraph, since he’s usually a proxy to Myra), but far from the only
people you will meet in the novels. I have also left out characters which not
yet play their own important role in the story (although I’m pretty sure Sir
Abraham and Lady Maria are going to do so soon).
If you wonder about Jane’s love interests - as she
says: they don’t count. Why? You’ll have to find out about that yourself…
