- Mrs Trellis – our heroine.
- Mr. Ikenga – the legal director of the Ministry of Works, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, who has discovered a 6.8 million US dollar payment due to a deceased contractor and wants our Mrs. T to pretend to be the contractor’s next of kin.
- Sir Patrick Anumel – a manager at Alliance Credit Finance where the money is banked.
- Chester Trellis – Mrs T’s husband, still not recovered from the unfortunate incident with the hot-air balloon.