A friend of the narrator and a loyal supporter of the National Liberation Front. He is motivated by his family and the defense of his country, with a gruff manner and problems with alcohol.

A Communist revolutionary and one of the narrator’s best friends, to whom the narrator reports during his exile in Los Angeles.

The head of the anti-Communist army, for whom the narrator works as an aide-de-camp. He is a conservative but respected leader.

An affable, corpulent man within the General’s circle, falsely accused by the narrator of being a mole.

A former classmate of the narrator and editor of a local newspaper who leaks critical information.

A middle-aged, Japanese-American woman in a casual relationship with the narrator, representing a modern American woman.

The daughter of the General, rebelling against traditional Vietnamese ways by embracing American culture.