A police inspector on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Jarty LeFleur is a self-assured man of middle age with a struggling marriage and a bad habit for a number of vices (keeping bottles of rum in his office desk, for example). Along with Benji, LeFleur serves as the second of the narrative’s primary protagonists, driving along the narrative on land (as Benji had at sea).

Initially the reader is introduced to LeFleur as a competent if underwhelming member of law enforcement. Eventually however, the reader comes to discover that he is likely struggling with borderline depression and post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the tragic and sudden death of his four-year old daughter Lilly. The process of discovering and reading the diary allows LeFleur to come to terms with his own grief and experience of death and injustice, allowing him to achieve an emotional breakthrough at the end of the novel, creating a new path forward for both him and his wife as they seem to reconcile on what would have been their daughter’s eighth birthday.

Pulled from the waters of the ocean after three days stranded at sea, the stranger—who introduces himself as “the Lord”—is a young man whom the crew rescues. He barely interacts with the characters throughout the book but interacts in profoundly dissonant ways whenever he is involved in a conversation. Affirming that he does in fact have the power to save them, he nevertheless refuses to bring this affirmation to fruition, even appearing to be killed by one of the other castaways.

At the very end of the narrative, however, the little girl the group had been calling Alice reveals that it is she, in fact, who is the Lord—remarking that the previous stranger had been an angel through whom she had spoken, much like Jesus.

Billionaire hedge-fund owner, Jason Lambert is arrogant, prideful, and wildly successful; as part of the narrative, he is the clear antagonist of the story. Owner of the yacht, the Galaxy, he conceived of the grand idea of bringing as many successful and influential people together at once, all of whom die together. Some thought it an act of hubris and frivolity, while others saw something visionary in the plan. Lambert proves to be a narcissistic and arrogant figure right up to the end, drowning thanks to his own stupidity, falling into the water while attacking other survivors in the raft out of anger.