Dominic Silk – Szabo
Silk, Dominic: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s47">Jeremy Silk's</a> younger brother, and one half of "<a href="mbpage06.htm#e07">El Mico</a>." With <a href="mbpage14.htm#p22">Nannie Pendergast</a>, the brothers have the biggest criminal operation in northern Africa since <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. Dominic faces <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in <a href="mbpage14.htm#p44">The Pit</a> at <a href="mbpage19.htm#x01">Xanadu</a> using only his hands and is defeated by her. He is shot by <a href="mbpage10.htm#k30">Little Krell</a> outside <a href="mbpage01.htm#a11">Alâeddin's</a> cave during the fight following the escape from Xanadu. [XT]
<a name="s47"></a>Silk, Jeremy: Dominic Silk's elder brother, and one half of "<a href="mbpage06.htm#e07">El Mico</a>." With <a href="mbpage14.htm#p22">Nannie Pendergast</a>, the brothers have the biggest criminal operation in northern Africa since <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. Jeremy faces <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in <a href="mbpage14.htm#p44">The Pit</a> at <a href="mbpage19.htm#x01">Xanadu</a> with a knife and is defeated by her. He is killed outside <a href="mbpage01.htm#a11">Alâeddin's</a> cave during the fight following the escape from Xanadu. [XT]
<a name="s48"></a>Silver: a member of <a href="mbpage13.htm#m81">Mountjoy's</a> organization. [GBB]
<a name="s49"></a>Silver Dragon: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s62">Wu Smith's</a> fighting cricket. [SM]
<a name="s50"></a>The Silver Mistress: the seventh Modesty Blaise book, published in 1973 and abbreviated SM. <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> is abducted and tortured by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik</a>, who plans to use the information he extracts in his elaborate blackmail scheme.
<a name="s51"></a>Sinclair, Mr.: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b25">Miss Benita's</a> English secretary in charge of all administration at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. Sinclair is killed by a grenade thrown by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> during the rescue of the slaves. [LDL]
<a name="s52"></a>Singapore papers: following an anti-Communist operation by British Intelligence in Singapore, a local bureaucrat wrote an appreciation that gave details of the complete operation. The papers were stolen by <a href="mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel</a>, who planned to sell them to the Soviets. <a href="mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser</a> feared that <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> would become a scape-goat when the anti-establishment mob began complaining about the Secret Service interfering in the affair of other countries. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>, <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and Fraser steal the safe containing the papers from Brunel's house in London with the use of a <a href="mbpage19.htm#w27">wrecking ball</a>. Modesty and Willie later present the papers to Tarrant as a birthday gift. [IV]
<a name="s53"></a>Singerman: the leader of an organization in Amsterdam hired by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a>. [MB]
<a name="s54"></a>Sirius: the code name for an <a href="mbpage01.htm#a25">Answer To Prayer</a> team action. <a href="mbpage15.htm#r25">Ritter</a> and <a href="mbpage02.htm#b53">Bonsu</a> arrange an assassination to secure the release of the daughter of an American millionaire from a West African prison. [DMH]
<a name="s55"></a>Sister: the unnamed Sister at <a href="mbpage10.htm#k18">Kempton Road Hospital</a> who, along with Dr. Ramsey, accepts <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> donation for their treatment of <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a>. Sister happily reports that someone "beat the shit" out of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p36">Pike</a>. [OA]
<a name="s56"></a>Siv: one of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> girls. Siv was a Swedish girl who wrestled alligators. Willie met her in Florida. [LDL]
<a name="s57"></a>Sivaji: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> instructor in yoga. He lived in the Thar desert, north of Jodhpur. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> was also one of Sivaji's students, having spent two months with him, at Modesty's request. [IV]
<a name="s58"></a>Skendi: an Albanian assassin hired by <a href="mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a> to kill <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> following her humiliation of Pike at <a href="mbpage02.htm#b42">The Black Horse</a>. Skendi is the world's best killer with a sniper rifle. Warned of the contract by <a href="mbpage12.htm#m42">Sir Angus McBeal</a>, Modesty is able to set a trap for Skendi at her cottage. She and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> disarm the man, who is then arrested by <a href="mbpage11.htm#l45">Inspector Harry Lomax</a>. [OA]
<a name="s59"></a>skittle: a short wooden club with a large hollow end weighted with lead. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> used thrown skittles to disarm the guards while rescuing <a href="mbpage11.htm#l49">Wei Lu</a> from <a href="mbpage10.htm#k32">Kui-tan</a>. [DMH]
<a name="s60"></a>sling: <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> uses a sling to disable a guard at the Yugoslav labour battalion with a two-inch ball of sand molded with wax when he and <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> rescue <a href="mbpage10.htm#k31">Krolli</a>. [IL] Willie kills three of the guards on <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a> using a sling fashioned from the underside of a leather armchair cushion, with steel bearings from the boat store for shot. [DC] Willie kills one of the men sent by <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim</a> to kill <a href="mbpage04.htm#c39">Molly Chen</a> by using the bottom of her leather bikini as a sling. [DMH] Willie uses a sling to disable one of the guards outside <a href="mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman's</a> house in Peru with a ball of lead shot molded with wax. [BM] Willie uses a sling to disable a guard and <a href="mbpage15.htm#r36">Roger</a> at <a href="mbpage15.htm#p48">Poldeacon</a> with balls of lead shot molded with wax. [GBB]
<a name="s61"></a>Smith, Mr. and Miss: the false names given by <a href="mbpage03.htm#b81">Beauregard Brown</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d16">Clarissa de Courtney-Scott</a> when they contact <a href="mbpage19.htm#w12">Weber</a> to hire some local criminals to assist in the theft of the <a href="mbpage09.htm#h35">Hsuan-Te chair</a> from the <a href="mbpage02.htm#b55">Bor Museum</a>. Following the theft, they visit Weber for the purpose of killing him. [DC]
<a name="s62"></a>Smith, Wu: known to <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> from her days with <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>, Wu Smith of Macao is the owner of the <a href="mbpage13.htm#n10">New Provident and Commercial Bank</a>, which he uses to finance any criminal project he deems sound. Smith handles the ransom collected by <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff</a>, and is also the man who provided Seff with his <a href="mbpage13.htm#m79">Moro</a> guards. [IL]. The victims of <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik's</a> blackmail scheme make their monthly payments to the account of the <a href="mbpage13.htm#o08">Orient Society for the Disabled</a> in Smith's bank. Modesty and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> travel to Macao with <a href="mbpage19.htm#w15">Weng</a> to abduct and interrogate Smith when they learn that <a href="mbpage10.htm#l11">Fiona Langford</a> is making payments to the account, and acquire Straik's name in the process. [SM]
<a name="s63"></a>Smithson: the name given by a member of <a href="mbpage05.htm#d11">The Dark Angels</a> when he talks to <a href="mbpage10.htm#k22">Howard A. Keyes</a> on the phone in an attempt to lure him, along with <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>, to a confrontation at the parking garage that is being built on the site of Keyes's new supermarket. [DA]
<a name="s64"></a>snooker: <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> defeat <a href="mbpage07.htm#f43">Fuller</a> and <a href="mbpage03.htm#c13">Cartwright</a>, two disliked members of <a href="mbpage15.htm#r05">Rand's Club</a>, in a game of snooker. [IL]
<a name="s65"></a>Snowman: the code name used by <a href="mbpage19.htm#v02">Captain Axel Valerius</a> when dealing with <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in the days of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. [DMH]
<a name="s66"></a>Soames, Robert: an American art critic and a world authority on the Neapolitan School. Presumed lost on a hunting trip to Canada, Soames was one of the art experts taken to <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a> to view <a href="mbpage17.htm#s70">Sam Solon's</a> collection of stolen art treasures. [DC]
<a name="s67"></a>Soapy: an arms dealer who supplies <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> with compound explosive. [IL]
<a name="s68"></a>Solino: one of the acts in <a href="mbpage08.htm#g31">Gogol's Circus</a>. <a href="mbpage06.htm#e13">Ethel</a> is a part of the Solino act. [NM]
<a name="s69"></a>Solon, Es-Sabah: the self-proclaimed head of the <a href="mbpage07.htm#f36">Free Kuwait Government</a>, Solon is actually in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> employ, and is attempting to gain credibility for Karz's <a href="mbpage10.htm#k35">Kuwait Liberation Army</a>. Following the invasion, Solon will announce that the country has been taken over by his government, in order to prevent major western powers from making a counter-move. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>, heavily disguised, attend one of Solon's lectures in London, at the request of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a>. [ST]
<a name="s70"></a>Solon, Sam: an Australian newspaper tycoon whom <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> had considered as a potential target for <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. Solon has feelings of inferiority over his lack of understanding of art. As a result, he has been amassing a collection of stolen art treasures on <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>, and kidnapping a variety of art experts to show off his collection. Solon is on the plane that picks up <a href="mbpage06.htm#f18">Luke Fletcher</a> from <a href="mbpage19.htm#w05">The Wasp</a> and flies him back to Australia. Solon's intent is to see if Fletcher remembers anything of his ordeal on the island. He later joins forces with Modesty and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> in their quest to discover what happened to Fletcher, as a way of keeping tabs on how much they know. Solon is killed by Willie when he and <a href="mbpage03.htm#b81">Beauregard Browne</a> fly out to investigate the apparently deserted boat that Modesty and Willie used to escape from Dragon's Claw. [DC]
<a name="s71"></a>"The Soo Girl Charity": a short story published in <a href="mbpage14.htm#p35">Pieces Of Modesty</a>, abbreviated SGC. When <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> has her bottom pinched by <a href="mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn</a> while she's working as a flag-seller for <a href="mbpage12.htm#m54">Mental Health</a>, she and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> decide to extract a "donation" of £5,000 from the businessman's safe.
<a name="s72"></a>Sorgu: an Arab tribe. [XT]
<a name="s73"></a>Soulter: a member of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> criminal organization. [MB]
<a name="s74"></a>Soultier: a plastic surgeon. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> arranged for Soultier to fly from Paris and operate on <a href="mbpage03.htm#b80">Lucille Brouet</a> following the accident that killed her family. [ST]
<a name="s75"></a>Specials: a group of twenty mercenaries hired by <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a> to guard the slaves at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>, and to periodically bring new slaves to the plantation. [LDL]
<a name="s76"></a>Spellman, Dicky: a recent appointment on the naval side of the Foreign Office. [MB]
<a name="s77"></a>Sperry, General: a military expert consulted by <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> about the feasibility of <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> rumored invasion of Kuwait. [ST]
<a name="s78"></a>Spurling, Mr.: the manager of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t35">The Treadmill</a>. [MB, IV, DMH]
<a name="s79"></a>Squeak: one of the dolphins that follow <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in <a href="mbpage19.htm#w05">The Wasp</a>. [DC]
<a name="s80"></a>St. John Air Wing: an association of volunteer pilots who make emergency medical flights. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is a member, and flies a transplant kidney from Stansted to North Thursby. [DMH]
<a name="s81"></a>St. Maur, Major the Earl ('Ronnie'): one of the leaders of <a href="mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a>. An accomplished archer, St. Maur had resigned his commission in a Marine Commando battalion after his rigorous and realistic training methods had resulted in the deaths of three of his men in one year. St. Maur is killed by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> with a <a href="mbpage10.htm#k28">knife</a> on the deck of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s16">The Sandpiper</a> following the destruction of <a href="mbpage13.htm#m78">Operation Morningstar</a>. [NM]
<a name="s82"></a>St. Maur, Veronica the Countess: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s81">Major the Earl St. Maur's</a> wife, a tall, buxom young woman of narrow intelligence and lusty appetites. One of her pastimes is riding horses. [NM]
<a name="s83"></a>stab-fright: the natural fear that holds you back in the moment of committing yourself to action. <a href="mbpage05.htm#c74">Dr. Kim Crozier</a> experiences "stab-fright" at the beginning of the slaves' fight against <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a> at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. [LDL]
<a name="s84"></a>Stag, The: <a href="mbpage16.htm#s36">Dave Selby's</a> pub, near the site of the derelict area where <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> ambushes and kills the <a href="mbpage15.htm#p49">Polish twins</a>. [NM]
<a name="s85"></a>Starov: a Soviet colonel, Starov was <a href="mbpage13.htm#n17">Novikov's</a> commander in the KGB when he served in Berlin after the war. [IV] Later, having attained the rank Major-General, Starov served as the head of Russian security in East Berlin. Japanese agent <a href="mbpage19.htm#y03">Yoshida</a>impersonates the scientist <a href="mbpage13.htm#o04">Okubo</a> as part of Starov's plan to reveal <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> sleeper network of agents in East Berlin. [GW] [Note: on page 40 of the Pan and Mysterious Press editions of Pieces Of Modesty, Starov's name is misspelled as Zarov. In all other appearances, it's Starov].
<a name="s86"></a>Stavros: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. A Greek shipping magnate, he handles a gun during the fight against <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a>. [LDL] Following the rescue, Stavros chipped in with <a href="mbpage18.htm#v01">Valdez</a> and <a href="mbpage11.htm#m19">Marker</a> to buy <a href="mbpage05.htm#c74">Dr. Kim Crozier</a> a practice in San Francisco. [NM] He tried to give <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> an ocean-going yacht, and sent <a href="mbpage18.htm#t26">Maude Tiller</a> a Rolls-Royce which sits in her parents garage. Stavros provides the airplane from which Maude parachutes onto <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a>, and the yacht which is used to transport <a href="mbpage10.htm#k31">Krolli</a> and his men to the island to rescue Modesty and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> from <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim</a>. [DMH]
<a name="s87"></a>Stein: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. [LDL]
<a name="s88"></a>Stenmore: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik's</a> man in London. He spotted <a href="mbpage15.htm#q02">Quinn</a> when the former airline pilot showed up at <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> apartment building. [SM]
<a name="s89"></a>stethostrobic pulse detector: a gadget dreamed up by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> to make <a href="mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn</a> think his safe had been burgled. It consists of a square black box about one foot in height, with three dials and two vernier controls. Earphones are plugged into one side; from the other side, wires run up to three small suction cups attached to the safe. In reality, the device is only a mock-up, with no components inside. However, its appearance is sufficient to cause Leybourn to open the safe himself to check the contents. [SGC]
<a name="s90"></a>Straik, Colonel Jim: the American head of an organization that runs an elaborate blackmail scheme using the <a href="mbpage04.htm#c36">Chateau Lancieux</a> as his headquarters. Straik abducts and tortures <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a>, planning to use whatever classified information he extracts to blackmail a large number of people for whatever amount he feels each victim will willingly pay. The payments will be made to the account of the <a href="mbpage13.htm#o08">Orient Society for the Disabled</a> at <a href="mbpage17.htm#s62">Wu Smith's</a> <a href="mbpage13.htm#n10">New Provident and Commercial Bank</a> of Macao. One of Straik's current victims is <a href="mbpage08.htm#g23">Lady Janet Gillam's</a> young sister <a href="mbpage10.htm#l11">Fiona Langford</a>. Straik is killed when <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> throws a seven foot length of angle iron, javelin-style, through the windshield of his car as he pursues the escaping prisoners. [SM]
<a name="s91"></a>Straik, Lucy: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik's</a> well-endowed, dim-witted wife. As he prepares to flee from <a href="mbpage04.htm#c36">Chateau Lancieux</a>, the Colonel decides that his wife is expendable, and orders her death. <a href="mbpage01.htm#a22">Angel</a> is happy to carry out the sentence. [SM]
<a name="s92"></a>Suleiman: the man responsible for the scar on the back of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> right hand shaped like an uncompleted 'S'. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> repaid Suleiman for his handiwork by breaking his neck. [MB]
<a name="s93"></a>Sumner, Brigadier George: a former military man, and a member of the organization that also includes <a href="mbpage19.htm#w13">Harriet Welling</a>, <a href="mbpage18.htm#t27">Timmins</a> and <a href="mbpage01.htm#b19">John Beckworth</a>. The group uses <a href="mbpage05.htm#d11">The Dark Angels</a> to kill selected foreign investors as a means of obtaining their goal of keeping British industry British-owned. Sumner selected the members of The Dark Angels. [DA]
<a name="s94"></a>Surridge, Miriam: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>, a red-haired girl. [LDL] Surridge was a diamond heiress. [NM]
<a name="s95"></a>Swann: the alias used by <a href="mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser</a> while trailing <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> in Tangier. [ST]
<a name="s96"></a>sword: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> fencing abilities are put to the test when she faces <a href="mbpage19.htm#w14">Wenczel</a> with a sword and kills him as part of her plan to escape from Mus. [TFD] <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> kills <a href="mbpage10.htm#k15">Kazim</a> with a short broad-bladed sword, thrown underhand, when he and Modesty face <a href="mbpage15.htm#p52">Sybil Pray</a>and Kazim in gladiatorial combat on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a>. [DMH]
<a name="s97"></a>Sylt: a German island in the North Sea off the coast near the border between Denmark and Germany, the largest and northernmost of the North Frisian Islands. <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff</a> and his group are preparing to leave the <a href="mbpage08.htm#h20">Haus Lobigo</a> on Sylt when they capture <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>. [IL]
<a name="s98"></a>Szabo: a member of <a href="mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a> from the Balkans, and the leader of the section carrying out <a href="mbpage01.htm#b17">Operation Baystrike</a>. Szabo is killed by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> using a <a href="mbpage02.htm#b48">blowpipe</a> when she and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> escape from the ship's hospital on board the <a href="mbpage06.htm#d46">Drioga Corporation's</a> drillship. [NM]