help her disguise her appearance when she practices her countersurveillance techniques and tradecraft a term spies and agents use that refers to the techniques of trailing a suspect eluding a tail and other methods they use in performing their duties Angela keeps her desire to be an agent secret from her father Roger who would not approve Blaze Munoz and Roger Tucker Q’s mom and Angela’s dad have recently married They are musicians and perform together as the duet Match After marrying in a ceremony in San Francisco they take Q and Angela on tour with them across the country Tyrone Boone Boone is an old roadie someone who travels with musicians and musical acts performing all kinds of tasks on a tour Boone is in charge of tour security and keeps an eye on Q and Angela He travels with his very old nearly toothless and quite smelly dog Croc Boone is a former NOC No Official Cover agent for the CIA He now uses a network of former spies to run off-the-books or unofficial operations Malak Tucker Angela’s mother and a United States Secret Service agent Eben Lavi A rogue Mossad agent Mossad is roughly the Israeli equivalent of the CIA Eben is tracking a terrorist he believes is responsible for his brother’s death He believes the assassin known as the Leopard has a connection to Angela
Ziv The mysterious Ziv is a NOC agent for Mossad Buddy T Buddy T is Blaze and Roger’s manager Though he is obnoxious and offensive in practically every way he’s still one of the most successful managers in the music business Roger jokes that the T stands for To-Do because when Buddy talks he sounds like he’s giving everyone a to-do list Dirk Peski Dirk is nicknamed the Paparazzi Prince because he takes photos of the rich and famous and sells them to tabloid newspapers and gossip websites Dirk is one of Ziv’s operatives or agents J R Culpepper J R is the president of the United States or POTUS as he is referred to by the Secret Service Before being elected president he served in the U S Senate was vice president and was director of the CIA Marie and Art Marie and Art are Roger and Blaze’s personal assistants or PAs Buddy T thinks that he hired them but in fact they are highly trained agents and bodyguards working for Boone Heather Hughes Heather is the president of a record company and responsible in large part for putting Match back on the charts She knows Boone well from all her years in the music industry Mostly her job appears to be keeping Buddy T mollified and out of everyone’s way
P K P K is short for President’s Kid the Secret Service code name for Willingham Culpepper son of J R Culpepper P K is ten years old but smarter than most and wise beyond his years He knows the location of many of the secret passages in the White House and has a Secret Service radio which he uses to keep tabs on the agents so that he can practice eluding them Bethany Culpepper J R is widowed and his daughter Bethany takes on the role of first lady Speed Paulsen Q’s biological father Speed is a rock star and loves to play the part He earned the nickname Speed because he could pick guitar faster than anyone alive It’s been a while since Speed has had any hit songs and he is jealous of his ex-wife’s sudden newfound success Speed is annoying hapless confused in and out of rehab but at the same time strangely likeable Agents Charlie Norton and Pat Callaghan Secret Service agents whom J R assigns to Boone’s team Both men are capable trustworthy and devoted to J R and his family The SOS team A group of Boone’s most trusted operatives SOS stands for Some Old Spooks The team consists of X-Ray The technical genius He spends most of his time in a beat-up old van the team calls the intellimobile There is no computer system and no database or piece of
electronic equipment X-Ray cannot hack master construct or duplicate Vanessa The team’s designated world’s deadliest old broad She is a master knife thrower and Boone refers to her as a human lie detector due to her ability to read people and determine if they are telling the truth Vanessa is also an exceptional driver and adept at tailing suspects without being noticed Felix and Uly Formal Special Forces operatives Given their size both are nearly six feet eight inches tall and matching buzz cuts they could easily be mistaken for brothers Their strength expertise in hand-to-hand combat and knowledge of nearly every type of weapon imaginable make them invaluable members of Boone’s squad
