Charlie Muffin / Comrade Charlie / Brian Freemantle

As the Soviet Union is about to come apart, Moscow focuses its attention on one goal: not only to match but beat the American development of the Star Wars Defense Program and prove yet again that the Soviet Union is the leader in space exploration. Meanwhile, abrasive and unwelcome on his own side, Charlie is off the active British roster and relegated to the chores of a low-grade clerk. It’s just such a chore that gets him back in action after he unwittingly stumbles onto a British traitor involved in the Kremlin’s scheme. Moscow uses this coincidence to plan Charlie’s permanent removal, using Natalia Fedova, Charlie’s former lover and KGB debriefer, as the bait to bring about Charlie’s destruction.