Arkady Morozov

Arkady Morozov is a Belarusian pathologist who was working as Zumba teacher while he learnt sufficient English to work in the NHS. One of the pupils in his class was Lucy Loveridge, the girlfriend of Tom Winscombe.

After the incident in which Tom trashed Lucy's car, Arkady moved in with her instead. He subsequently assisted Tom with the exchange of George Burgess's briefcase containing the Vavasor Papers for Dorothy Chan following her kidnap by the Gretzky gang, by lending him his lovingly-preserved cold-war era Škoda. Less helpfully, he also involved his friend Sergei Kravchenko, ostensibly to attach a tracking device to the briefcase, although Sergei instead inserted a bomb. Following the resulting explosion and the death of several members of the Gretzky family, Arkady decided it might be a good time to lie low for a while.

Arkady's niece Katya is now working as an intern at Dot Chan. At the end of the book, she leaves a message on Ali's computer asking her to tell Dorothy to phone Arkady.