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Rossland: the false name that will be painted on the <a href="mbpage11.htm#m18">Marimba</a> when its cargo of oil is sold covertly prior to the destruction of the ship for insurance purposes. [DMH]
<a name="r51"></a>Royal Lithuania Movement: the name of a fringe political organization used by <a href="mbpage13.htm#m81">Mountjoy</a> when claiming responsibility for kidnapping <a href="mbpage08.htm#h05">Tor Hallenberg</a>. In actual fact, the group has a membership of twenty men who are all in their seventies or older. [GBB]
<a name="r52"></a>Royle, Dr.: a curator of the British Museum of Natural History, and one of the world's foremost experts on dolphins. The information that he provides convinces <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> that <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff</a> is using trained dolphins to recover the buoys containing the ransom money. [IL]
<a name="r53"></a>Royston Clinic: the clinic in New York where <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> learns that she has an inoperable growth in her brain. [CT]
<a name="r54"></a>Rudson: an English member of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> criminal organization. Gabriel shoots Rudson after learning that the man's knee has been broken while attempting to stop <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> escape from the monastery on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k05">Kalithos</a>. [MB]
<a name="r55"></a>Rutledge: a civil servant on <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff's</a> death list. Rutledge died of thrombosis. [IL]
<a name="r56"></a>Ryan, John: one of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> operatives. He is taken to <a href="mbpage11.htm#l50">Lubyanka Prison</a> after his cover is blown in Sofia. Tarrant later learns through <a href="mbpage19.htm#v10">René Vaubois</a> that Ryan committed suicide in the prison. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> had known him as <a href="mbpage15.htm#r24">Alan Ritchie</a> when she encountered him during the days of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. [DC]
<a name="r57"></a>Rykov: <a href="mbpage08.htm#g35">Colonel Mikhail Golitsyn's</a> former rival in the GRU. Golitsyn is startled to learn that <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> is aware of <a href="mbpage16.htm#r57">Rykov's</a> ultimate fate. [NM]
<a name="s01"></a>Saad: a friend of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> sends the two heavies who were bothering <a href="mbpage04.htm#c49">Claudine</a> to Saad, who leases them out to <a href="mbpage07.htm#f41">Fuad</a>. [BM]
<a name="s02"></a>Saafi: the leader of a rival mob that had battled <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. [BM]
<a name="s03"></a>Sabre-Tooth, Operation: the code name for <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> operation to invade Kuwait, under the guise of the <a href="mbpage10.htm#k35">Kuwait Liberation Army</a>, and take control of the country's oil reserves. [ST]
<a name="s04"></a>Sabre-Tooth: the second Modesty Blaise book, published in 1966 and abbreviated ST. <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz</a> is training a mercenary army with which he plans to invade Kuwait and take control of its oil reserves.
<a name="s05"></a>Sacchi: a suspected high Mafia man in Rome. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> contact Sacchi after striking out on their own to pull the "live-bait" caper on <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a>. [MB]
<a name="s06"></a>Sadeen: a member of <a href="mbpage06.htm#e07">El Mico's</a> organization sent to kill <a href="mbpage12.htm#m22">Bernard Martel</a>, before they realized that he had stolen <a href="mbpage13.htm#o03">The Object</a> (without knowing what it was), along with the month's takings. Sadeen is killed in the earthquake that destroys the <a href="mbpage09.htm#h30">Hotel Ayachi</a>. [XT]
<a name="s07"></a>Sagasta, Captain Miguel: a police officer in Panama whom <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> had dealings with in the days of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. He was rapidly promoted following her involvement in the <a href="mbpage11.htm#m20">Marroc</a> affair. When Modesty goes to Panama to help bring <a href="mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah Pilgrim</a> out of the county, she has herself brought in by Sagasta "for questioning," to throw <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> men off her trail. [TFD] Sagasta meets <a href="mbpage11.htm#l33">Soo Leybourn</a> at the airport in Panama and arranges the rest of her journey back to her family in Java. [SGC] Now serving as Panama's Minister of Defence, Sagasta offers his unofficial assistance to Modesty's efforts to reach the train carrying members of the government of <a href="mbpage12.htm#m76">Montelero</a>, along with <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and his wife Dinah, to safety in his country. [CT]
<a name="s08"></a>"Salamander Four": a short story published in <a href="mbpage14.htm#p35">Pieces Of Modesty</a>, abbreviated SF. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> rescues <a href="mbpage19.htm#w02">Waldo</a> from the clutches of the three killers hired by <a href="mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a> who have followed the industrial spy to the cabin of sculptor <a href="mbpage08.htm#h23">Alex Hemmer</a>.
<a name="s09"></a>Salamander Four: an international group of industrial spies based in Amsterdam. When <a href="mbpage19.htm#w02">Waldo</a> obtains the details for a new process for colour film first, three killers hired by Salamander Four pursue him for two weeks, until he arrives at the cabin of <a href="mbpage08.htm#h23">Alex Hemmer</a> in Finland. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> have a thick dossier containing a blue-print of Salamander Four compiled during the days of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. [SF] Salamander Four provides <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim's</a> organization with a detailed dossier on Modesty, at a price of $50,000. Pilgrim takes out a <a href="mbpage05.htm#d22">Dead Man's Handle</a> contract with the group, who have diversified to any crime up to and including murder, on the lives of <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and his wife <a href="mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah</a>. The contract will take effect if Modesty and Willie do not agree to participate in the <a href="mbpage08.htm#h04">Hallelujah Scenario</a>. [DMH] Over the protests of <a href="mbpage12.htm#m42">Sir Angus McBeal</a>, the group take out a contract on Modesty's life with <a href="mbpage10.htm#l18">Las Sombras</a> to make up for their loss of face over the cancellation of the Collier contract. McBeal arranges for the deaths of <a href="mbpage05.htm#d15">de Chardin</a>, <a href="mbpage08.htm#g20">Gesner</a> and <a href="mbpage14.htm#p29">Pereda</a> in an explosion, effectively destroying the group in an attempt to convince Modesty and Willie not to kill him because of the failed Las Sombras contract. [OA]
<a name="s10"></a>Salamut mob: a rival criminal organization destroyed by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in the days of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. <a href="mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse</a> got some idea of Modesty's abilities when <a href="mbpage07.htm#g08">Garcia</a> told him how she destroyed the Salamut mob. [LDL]
<a name="s11"></a>Salzedo: one of <a href="mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman's</a> employees during his time as a drug dealer. In his confused state following the gunshots which he believes signal the deaths of <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>, Bellman thinks that <a href="mbpage03.htm#b89">Captain Ricco Burrera</a> is actually <a href="mbpage16.htm#s11">Salzedo</a>. [BM]
<a name="s12"></a>Sam, Mr.: an overseer at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is assigned to his section when she is first brought to the plantation. He is killed by <a href="mbpage11.htm#m19">Marker</a> with a spear fashioned from the handle of a hoe when <a href="mbpage05.htm#c74">Dr. Kim Crozier</a> gives the signal that <a href="mbpage02.htm#b25">Miss Benita</a> is dead. [LDL]
<a name="s13"></a>Samarkand: a ten-thousand ton ship of the Cresset Line, a part of <a href="mbpage05.htm#d05">John Dall's</a> empire. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> are picked up by the Samarkand after they escape from <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff's</a> base in the Philippines. They return to rescue <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and <a href="mbpage11.htm#l50">Lucifer</a> in a sea plane carried on the ship. [IL]
<a name="s14"></a>San Tremino: the Uruguayan home town of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g08">Rafael Garcia</a>. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is on a bus bound for San Tremino when it is hijacked by some of <a href="mbpage06.htm#e06">El Mico's</a> men. [BDD]
<a name="s15"></a>sand yacht: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> escape from <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a> on a sand yacht fashioned by Willie from the trolley used to unload <a href="mbpage11.htm#l48">Skeet Lowry's</a> plane, with a sail made from a large sheet of polythene. In two days, they are able to travel nearly 200 miles across the desert. [TFD]
<a name="s16"></a>Sandpiper, The: a fifty-five foot motor sailer used by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> while following <a href="mbpage17.htm#s81">Major the Earl St. Maur</a>. [NM]
<a name="s17"></a>Sandy: a Scottsh member of <a href="mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a>, participating in <a href="mbpage01.htm#b17">Operation Baystrike</a>. [NM]
<a name="s18"></a>Sanford: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s58">Skendi</a> is wanted for murder in New York in the shooting death of a Sanford heiress. Her husband made a death-bed confession, admitting that he'd paid to have his wife killed. [OA]
<a name="s19"></a>Sangro: the leader of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff's</a> <a href="mbpage13.htm#m79">Moro</a> guards. [IL]
<a name="s20"></a>Santana: the Minister of Culture in <a href="mbpage12.htm#m76">Montelero</a>. He's one of the men who helps repair the bombed-out train tracks so the train carrying the members of the Montelero government to safety in Panama can continue on its journey. [CT]
<a name="s21"></a>Santos[1]: a former operative of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>, stationed in Buenos Aires. Santos provides <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> with information that allows her to rescue <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> from prison. [MB]
<a name="s22"></a>Santos[2]: a member of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> criminal organization. [MB]
<a name="s23"></a>Saragam: a martial arts expert in Asia. <a href="mbpage16.htm#s43">Sexton</a> spent a year training under him in Bangkok. [SM] <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> trained under Saragam in Cambodia. [NM] It was while training under Saragam that Modesty first saw <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>. Willie himself had worked for Saragam a couple of years earlier until he "mucked things up and got chucked out." [DMH]
<a name="s24"></a>Sarmiento: the top man of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a>. [SF, LDL]
<a name="s25"></a>Sarrat: a French commander in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. [ST]
<a name="s26"></a>Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon: the marathon in which both <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> are participating when they are visited by <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and his wife <a href="mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah</a>. They are accompanied by <a href="mbpage19.htm#w15">Weng</a>, who brings news of the sale of the <a href="mbpage11.htm#m18">Marimba</a> by <a href="mbpage19.htm#v02">Captain Valerius</a>, and Modesty's receipt of a share of the proceeds. [DMH]
<a name="s27"></a>Sayle, Honourable Alexander: a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, he was reported missing and believed dead when his plane was shot down over France in May 1943. Suffering from amnesia, he was discovered by <a href="mbpage12.htm#m66">Maurice Mirot</a> and came to live on the Mirot farm, where he adopted the name <a href="mbpage12.htm#m62">Alex Mirot</a>. Following Maurice's death, only <a href="mbpage12.htm#m65">Matilde Mirot</a> was aware of Alexander's true identity. Fifty years later, after Alexander saves <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> from a <a href="mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a> assassination attempt, Matilde shows Modesty the identity discs that Alexander was wearing; an action that leads to his eventual reunion with his family in England. Alexander is the father of <a href="mbpage12.htm#m42">Sir Angus McBeal</a>, who was born six months after Alexander's disappearance. [OA]
<a name="s28"></a>Sayle, Lord Mark: <a href="mbpage16.htm#s27">Alexander Sayle's</a> younger brother. He inherited the family title when Alexander was reported missing and believed dead after his plane was shot down over France in May 1943. [OA]
<a name="s29"></a>Sayle, Viscount: the late father of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s27">Alexander Sayle</a> and <a href="mbpage16.htm#s28">Mark Sayle</a>. His full title was Viscount Sayle Of Casterlaw. [OA]
<a name="s30"></a>Schultz, Mr. and Mrs.: two of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>, a New York couple past middle age who were part of the first intake. They were the only couple who had not split up. <a href="mbpage05.htm#c74">Dr. Kim Crozier</a> considers Mrs. Schultz to be the doyenne of Limbo. She and her husband head the informal committee of slaves that run things at the plantation. They are part of the group of slaves that <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> organizes to fight against <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero's</a> men when the time comes. [LDL] Schultz was a supermarket king. [NM]
<a name="s31"></a>Schütz, Klaus: the Mayor of West Berlin. [GW]
<a name="s32"></a>scuba: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> use scuba gear to hide underwater, making it appear that the boat they have used to escape from <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a> is empty. When <a href="mbpage17.htm#s70">Sam Solon</a> and <a href="mbpage03.htm#b81">Beauregard Browne</a> land nearby in their amphibious plane, Modesty and Willie surface and kill the pair. [DC]
<a name="s33"></a>Seamus: the shark that has been following <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in <a href="mbpage19.htm#w05">The Wasp</a>. Seamus is normally chased away by <a href="mbpage03.htm#b86">Bubble</a> and <a href="mbpage17.htm#s79">Squeak</a>. [DC]
<a name="s34"></a>secutor: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> face <a href="mbpage16.htm#p52">Sybil Pray</a> and <a href="mbpage10.htm#k15">Kazim</a> in gladiatorial combat on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a> in secutor garb, armed with swords and shields. [DMH]
<a name="s35"></a>Seff: the leader of a small group that makes use of <a href="mbpage11.htm#l51">Lucifer's</a> psychic ability to predict natural deaths. Warnings are sent to people on the death list telling them to pay a ransom if they want to stay alive. Seff also chooses rich victims who are not on the list and sends warnings to them as well, in the hope that they will pay up when others on the list who have not paid begin to die seemingly "natural" deaths. <a href="mbpage19.htm#w24">Jack Wish</a>, Seff's executioner, takes care of any "mistakes" made by Lucifer, as well as any victims who do not pay. Seff is a puppeteer, and stages obscene puppet shows for Lucifer's amusement, with the assistance of his wife <a href="mbpage15.htm#r11">Regina</a>. Seff is killed by Lucifer when <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> return to Seff's base in the Philippines to rescue both <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and Lucifer. [IL]
<a name="s36"></a>Selby, Dave: a friend of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>, and the owner of a pub called <a href="mbpage17.htm#s84">The Stag</a>. Willie uses the derelict area where Selby is building a carpark and a landing stage to ambush and kill the <a href="mbpage15.htm#p49">Polish twins</a>. [NM]
<a name="s37"></a>Selby, Liz: <a href="mbpage16.htm#s36">Dave Selby's</a> wife. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> once saved Liz from an attack from some people armed with a razor. [NM]
<a name="s38"></a>Selby, Right Honourable Roger: a British cabinet minister. He was appointed as <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> superior in a recent cabinet shuffle. Selby dismisses the coded message from <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> regarding <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> planned invasion of Kuwait, to his ultimate regret. [ST] Selby's error in judgment eventually costs him his job. [TFD]
<a name="s39"></a>Selby: one of <a href="mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel's</a> five overseers at <a href="mbpage02.htm#b52">Bonaccord</a>. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> considers him to be a psychopath. An Englishman, Selby is shot by Modesty with a rifle at the beginning of the battle to escape from the estate. [IV]
<a name="s40"></a>Selim: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. [LDL]
<a name="s41"></a>seraglio: the brothel that is for the use of the men in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> training camp. Karz refers to it as the <a href="mbpage19.htm#w26">Women's Section</a>. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is sent to the seraglio after she kills <a href="mbpage18.htm#t38">The Twins</a>. [ST]
<a name="s42"></a>Servalle: one of three men who tries - and fails - to eliminate <a href="mbpage15.htm#q02">Quinn</a> as a potential witness to the abduction of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a>. Following his humiliation by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>, Servalle, along with <a href="mbpage07.htm#g07">Jacques Garat</a> and <a href="mbpage03.htm#b62">Gaston Bourget</a>, is killed by <a href="mbpage16.htm#s43">Sexton</a>. [SM]
<a name="s43"></a>Sexton, Mr.: <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik's</a> strongman. Sexton is possessed with exceptional strength and agility and is a master of several forms of martial arts. He manages to capture both <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> as they try to break into the <a href="mbpage04.htm#c36">Chateau Lancieux</a> by way of the cave beneath the property. He is eventually killed by Modesty when she drowns him in the lake in the <a href="mbpage10.htm#l09">Lancieux Cave</a>. [SM]
<a name="s44"></a>Shi-Chen, General Wang: the false identity adopted by <a href="mbpage19.htm#w03">Charlie Wan</a> when he interrogates <a href="mbpage17.htm#s62">Wu Smith</a>. [SM]
<a name="s45"></a>shield: <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> kills <a href="mbpage18.htm#t40">Dr. Tyl</a> with a shield - thrown Frisbee-style - after he and <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> defeat <a href="mbpage16.htm#p52">Sybil Pray</a> and <a href="mbpage10.htm#k15">Kazim</a> in gladiatorial combat on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a>. [DMH]