Dan

Dan is an Irish independence terrorist who becomes part of a plot to blow up the Grand Hotel and kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dan, when the novel begins, is 18 and has a reasonable moral compass that quickly disintegrates upon joining the terrorist group bent on independence. Dan will do whatever is needed to secure Irish independence, but he stops short of killing noncombatants. Only at Dawson’s insistence does Dan commit to killing innocents at the Grand Hotel to make a political point. Dan, through his work, becomes a cruel, callous, and careless man who not only kills innocents through the bombing, but backhands his mother like a coward when she dares to oppose what he has done.

Freya

Freya Finch is an 18-year-old girl uncertain about her future. She lives with her father, Moose, and works with him at the Grand Hotel. Pretty, intelligent, but unsure...