EXTRACTS: The Modesty Blaise Companion Expanded Edition © 2018 The Book Palace (425 PAGES in Full edition)

T H E M O D E S T Y B L A I S E C O M P A N I O N WEBER “DRAGON’S CLAW” P 69 Local criminal fixer used by Beauregard Browne to arrange the Bor Museum robbery in Amsterdam. When the job is over he is killed by Beau using a variation of the Thug rumal. WEISE, Herr “I, LUCIFER” P 162 Modesty’s ficticious boss created when, as Hilde Geibel, she is chatting up Jack Wish during her recce of Seff’s base of operations on Sylt. WELLING, Harriet “COBRA TRAP” P 81 “THE DARK ANGELS” Company director, committee member of several charities and a figure of substance in the City. Member of the secret group dedicated to keeping British industry British owned. The four person group hires assassins to arrange the fatal “accidents” of foreign business men attempting to take over British concerns. WENCZEL Major “A TASTE FOR DEATH” P 108 In charge of the guards for Gabriel and Delicata at Mus. A master swordsman. He is deliberately insulted by Modesty and having been provoked is encouraged by Delicata to fight her in a duel with epées. WENG Houseboy to Modesty. Indo-Chinese, he lived in Hong Kong for four years while being put through school and university by Modesty and keeps in touch with his old friends there. Disloyalty to Modesty is not possible as a concept for him. He is totally trusted and relied upon by both Modesty and Willie. Has a very wide range of duties and functions, skills and talents. He has passed the advanced drivers course and acts as chauffeur. He particularly enjoys driving her Rolls. Likes going to discos, is a first class bridge player and earns a considerable amount of money playing at top London clubs. He is prepared to do anything and everything for his employer from whom he receives an enormous salary, with occasional bonuses. In Willie’s opinion he could be a captain of industry were he not completely satisfied by his position as Modesty’s houseboy. Almost a millionaire as a result of his service, he is quite unable to see any advantage in changing. A snob of the seventh dan. He appears in most of the novels and nearly half of the strip stories. Important as a part of the structure of Modesty’s life style. I I 396 WAN, Sammy (continued) “COBRA TRAP” P 11 “BELLMAN” Used by Willie on one of his Network operations to teach a pimp and his minders not to bother Claudine Chastenet. Referred to by Garcia as one of the original supporters of Modesty when she took over the old Louche gang. WATCHMEN, THE “THE NIGHT OF MORNINGSTAR” P 57 Apparently non-aligned terrorist group which commits what seem to be random acts of extreme political violence. Its acts are part of an overall plan conceived by Colonel Golitsyn of the G.R.U. to destabilise the West. The group is led by a triumvirate consisting of Golitsyn, Major the Earl St Maur and Captain Siegfried von Kranken. Hugh Oberon is one of its senior members. Its recent operation to blow up the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge was foiled by Ben Christie and Modesty. Its current operation, Morningstar, is the planned mass murder of the heads of all the European governments attending a conference in Portugal. WAVERLY “PIECES OF MODESTY” P 28 “THE GIGGLE-WRECKER” Minister of Defence who orders Sir Gerald Tarrant to activate the East Berlin network of agents it has taken him fifteen years to establish in order to bring the defecting Professor Okubo, a brilliant scientist, from East Berlin to the West. Disregards Tarrant’s view that it is a plot by Major-General Starov, Head of Russian Security in East Berlin to capture his agents and is preparing to resign rather than sacrifice them in this way. Not happy when Tarrant reveals his hunch about the plot was correct. Initially believes Tarrant is being insolent when he tells him that this friends shot the fake Okubu over the wall from a cannon and caught him in a net, but when he realises it is true, finds it amusing. He is obliged to agree to Tarrant’s demand that Modesty be given a bunch of flowers paid for from the Special Fund. The cost of two shillings had to be approved by the Prime Minister. Drawn by Neville Colvin Drawn by Dick Giordano