Editing SS-GB (section)

==Characters==
* Douglas Archer. A 30-year-old [[Detective Superintendent#Metropolitan Police|Detective Superintendent]] in the [[Metropolitan Police]], Archer is a widower with a young son named Douggie. Archer's wife, Jill, perished during [[The Blitz]] in London. A graduate of [[Oxford University]], Archer is among a new generation of university-educated detectives who prefers scientific methods like [[forensic science]]. A highly respected detective, Archer is credited with solving several high-profile murder cases in London. Archer struggles to balance his detective work with the brutal realities of the Nazi occupation. 
* Dr Oskar Huth. A {{lang|de|[[Standartenführer]]}} from the {{lang|de|[[Sicherheitsdienst]]}} (Security Service), the SS intelligence service. He speaks fluent English and studied at Oxford University. Huth has an antagonistic relationship with SS {{lang|de|[[Gruppenführer]]}} Fritz Kellerman, whom he resents as an opportunistic political appointee, and his own father, a respected German professor. Huth is also privy to the German atomic research program, which is codenamed "Apocalypse". Huth takes charge of the investigation into William Spode's murder because of the physicist's involvement with the German atomic research establishment at Bringle Sands, near [[Devon]]. Huth strikes a deal with the British Resistance leader George Mayhew, who reveals the resistance plot to smuggle the King to the US, but it turns out to be a diversionary for a US raid on Bringle Sands.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=43-52; 33-349|ps=; Chapters 5-6, 40}}  
* Fritz Kellerman. An SS {{lang|de|Gruppenführer}} who serves as the head of all British police forces, he seeks to bring it in line with the German police system. A plump man in his late fifties with a thick thatch of white hair who has a taste for good food and drink, Kellerman rose through the ranks of the [[Nazi Party]] as a political appointee. Kellerman likes his subordinates to refer to him as {{lang|de|[[wikt:Vater|Vater]]}} (or father). Kellerman tries to ingratiate himself with Archer by offering his son, Douggie, gifts and securing a place at the German School in [[Highgate]] for the children of German officers and bureaucrats. A ruthless political player, Kellerman frames Huth for colluding with the British Resistance to free King George VI and destroy the Bringle Sands atomic research facility.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=15, 346-347|ps=; Chapter 1, Chapter 40}}  
* Barbara Barga. An American syndicated journalist who writes for 42 US magazines and newspapers, she is the wife of Daniel Barga, a [[lieutenant commander]] in the [[US Navy]]. Barbara travelled to London on the inaugural [[Lufthansa]] flight from New York to London. While working on a story about Americans living in German-occupied London, Barbara secretly works with the British Resistance to obtain German atomic secrets for the Americans. She befriends Archer, and they develop a romantic relationship. Later in the novel, she is killed by the Gestapo under Kellerman's orders.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=29, 348-349|ps=; Chapters 2, 40}} 
* Harry Woods. A detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police. An "old school" policeman, Woods is scornful of paperwork, filing systems and microscopes. A [[First World War]] veteran, Woods is older than Archer, who looks up to him as a professional mentor. Woods and Archer first met in 1920 when Woods was a young police constable, and Archer was a nine-year-old boy. Woods has a wife, Joan Woods, but is secretly in love with the police secretary Sylvia Manning. Woods and Manning are involved with the British Resistance. Following a botched escape attempt, Woods strikes a deal with Kellerman and divulges the resistance's plot to rescue King George VI and smuggle him to the US.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=10, 348-349|ps=; Chapters 2, 40}}  
* Jimmy Dunn. A young aspiring police constable in the Metropolitan Police. Archer tasks Dunn with investigating the itinerant music teacher John Spode. The investigation uncovers Spode's connection to the murdered atomic physicist William Spode, who was travelling under the pseudonym Peter Thomas, and both brothers' involvement in atomic research. Dunn is later murdered by the British Resistance, which strings up his body in Archer's former home as a warning.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=69-76|ps=; Chapters 9}}  
* Sylvia Manning. A secretary working for the Metropolitan Police. Her parents perished during the German invasion, and she entered into a romantic relationship with Archer, who also lost his wife. Manning becomes involved with the British Resistance and steals several German identity documents from Scotland Yard. Manning and Woods are later arrested after the British Resistance bombs the German-Soviet Friendship Week ceremony to take Karl Marx's remains to the Soviet Union. Manning is later killed during a botched escape attempt from the [[Metropolitan Cattle Market|Caledonian Market]] detention camp.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=35-41, 249-50, 256|ps=; Chapters 5, 27, 29}}   
* Dr John Spode
* Colonel George Mayhew