The anti-hero - a charming and athletic man with an obsessional interest in films and a sick fantasy.

 

John - a robust farmer and a doting husband and father who befriends our protagonist.

 

Lisa - barmaid and single mother whose lingering eye catches our protagonist's attention.

 

Carol - an alcoholic divorcee caught in the crossfire.

 

Jimmy - Lisa's hot-tempered and drug-addict ex boyfriend.

 

Sam - a timid IT technician desperate to reach his dying father.

 

Mitchell - a Northumberland Police detective investigating the disappearance of a local teenager.

 

Wright - Mitchell's burly former Royal Marine partner.

 

Big Joe - Scottish Falkland's War verteran landlord of the Miller's Arms.

 

Tess - a Miss Marple wannabe suspicious of the newcomer.

 

Larry - Haydon's not-so-innocent GP.