The client

Reggie Love: A female lawyer who has been practicing for five years. Her original name is Regina Cardoni who divorced with her husband. She was a former alcoholic and a former drug consumer. She isan older woman in the novel, but the movie incarnation played by Susan Sarandon is slightly younger.

Barry Muldanno: Mafia member who is accused of killing a senator. A cold-blooded man, he puts ahit on eleven-year old Mark.

Roy Foltrigg: US government lawyer whose job is to prove that Barry Muldanno killed the senator. He tries everything to make Mark talk and at the end he proposes to takeMark to court in New Orleans where he was sure that they could make him talk. He is the district attorney for the southern district of Louisiana.

Slick Moeller: A crime reporter who works on theMemphis Press. His real name is actually Alfred but nobody in the book knows this. He never names a person who trusted him with information and he knows everything about every crime committed, evenbefore the cops.

Paul Gronke: A close associate of Barry Muldanno. He is a tough thug, but not a killer like Barry Muldanno.

Mac Bono: A close associate of the Sulari family. He is a convictedmurderer and participates in the search for Mark Sway.

Gary Pirini: A close associate of the Sulari family. He participates in the search for Mark Sway.

Jack Nance and Calvin "Cal" Sisson: So-called"security specialists", they are actually thugs who do dirty work for the people who pay them. They are hired by Paul Gronke to help them for the search of Mark Sway.

Thomas Fink: An assistant USattorney of the southern district of Louisiana. He argued a case before the Tennessee juvenile court to have Mark placed on the juvenile detention center.

George Ord: US attorney for the westerndistrict of Tennessee. He helped Thomas Fink argue the case to have Mark placed on the juvenile detention center.

Dr. Greenway: The doctor that helps cure Ricky of his coma.

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