Montlero – Ozymandias

Montlero: formerly occupying a high position in the hierarchy of American gangsters, Montlero had been deported to his native Sicily. Montlero is hired by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d25">Mike Delgado</a> to kidnap <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> in Lisbon and hold them captive. The amount of time they take in escaping will determine their suitability for leadership roles in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. [ST]

<a name="m78"></a>Morningstar, Operation: the code name for a plan by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a> to assassinate the President of the United States, the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and West Germany and the President of France at a summit meeting to be held on the Portuguese island of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage15.htm#p50">Porto Santo</a>. Following the success of the operation, two groups purporting to be Watchmen will assault and take over the Soviet embassies in Bucharest and Belgrade. The USSR will respond with parachute battalions dropped into both cities, eventually placing their own puppets in charge of the governments. [NM]

<a name="m79"></a>Moro: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff</a> hires a band of Moro natives to serve as guards at his base in the Philippines. [IL]

<a name="m80"></a>Moulay: a servant at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> house in Tangier. After five years with Modesty, he is well used to strange happenings, and can be trusted to say nothing. [ST] Moulay's daughter <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l39">Lisette</a> also worked at the house as a maid. [BM] Moulay cares for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> during two weeks of convalescence at the house following his abduction by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik</a>. [SM] Moulay used to run the catering side of one or two respectable <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09">Network</a> establishments. Modesty put him in as her steward when she built the house in Tangier. His real name is unknown: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> began calling him "Moulay" (the equivalent of "squire") as a joke, and the name stuck. [XT]

<a name="m81"></a>Mountjoy: the leader of a criminal organization which kidnaps suitable candidates under the guise of various fringe political organizations. A series of demands are made for the release of the prisoner. These are eventually dropped through negotiation until only ransom money remains. One of Mountjoy's victims is Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize winner <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#h05">Tor Hallenberg</a>. [GBB]

<a name="m82"></a>muga: a Japanese word for the short-circuiting of the mind that occurs during close combat, allowing someone to react subconsciously, but with exactly the right move. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> practice with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage15.htm#q01">quarter-staff</a> because it's good for muga. [IV]

<a name="m83"></a>Muktar, Jacko: along with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c25">Adrian Chance</a>, one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel's</a> lieutenants, bodyguards and occasional executioners. Jacko helped torture <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n17">Mischa Novikov</a>, and later comes after <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p24">Dr. Giles Pennyfeather</a> to see if Novikov told him the coordinates of the gold deposit. Muktar is killed by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> with a knife as he, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>, Giles and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b83">Lisa Brunel</a> escape from Brunel's estate. [IL]

<a name="m84"></a>Muro: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik's</a> Japanese guards. [SM]

<a name="m85"></a>Mus: an ancient Roman city located in Algerian territory in the Sahara. The location of Mus is determined from some work done by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#a01">Dr. Aaronson</a> on some scrolls found near <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#i07">In Salah</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage15.htm#p53">Sir Howard Presteign</a> finances an archeological dig at the site, lead by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t09">Professor Malcolm Tangye</a>. Presteign's real goal is the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g06">Garamantes treasure</a> rumored to be buried in the city. To help recover it, he enlists the aid of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a>. [TFD]

<a name="m86"></a>muscle control: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is able to control her muscles to such a degree that it appears that a mouse or snake is moving under her skin, up her arms and across her back. She is able to use this skill to expell a small part of the hypnotic drug injected by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#d37">Dr. Djakovo</a> in the sick bay of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#d46">Drioga Corporation's</a> drillship. [NM]

<a name="m87"></a>Musée Mattioret: French art museum from which <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> steal the painting by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w09">Watteau</a>, using a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d31">device</a> constructed by Willie. [ST]

<a name="m88"></a>Mystery Tycoon: the name used to refer to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k22">Howard A. Keyes</a> by British newspapers reporting on his plans to open a chain of supermarkets in England. [DA]

<a name="n01"></a>Nadia: one of the women appointed as a personal servant of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p22">Nannie Pendergast</a> at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#x01">Xanadu</a>. [XT]

<a name="n02"></a>Nailer, The: a diversionary tactic improvised by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> during a life-and-death occasion in Agrigento. The Nailer requires <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> to strip to the waist before entering a room occupied by the enemy. So named because it was guaranteed to "nail" a roomful of men, holding them frozen for two or three vital seconds. [MB] Modesty uses "The Nailer" when she and Willie escape from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m77">Montlero's</a> men. [ST]

<a name="n03"></a>Napolean: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m62">Old Alex Mirot's</a> oxen. Old Alex uses the beast to pull away the stone which has been used to imprison <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in a cave in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a> assassination attempt. [OA]

<a name="n04"></a>Nash, Johnny: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> operatives, and a friend of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>. Nash tried to infiltrate <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m81">Mountjoy's</a> organization. After his cover is blown, Nash is killed and has two of his fingers removed by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b39">Simon Bird</a>, using a pair of bolt-cutters. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser</a>disobeys Tarrant's orders not to tell Modesty about Nash's death, knowing that the news will prompt her and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> to attempt to rescue <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#h05">Tor Hallenberg</a>. [GBB]

<a name="n05"></a>Nasir: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#h03">Hakim's</a> servant. [MB]

<a name="n06"></a>near-death experience: during the operation which put <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k11">Karnak</a> out of business, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> was seriously wounded and suffered a near-death experience as a result. He describes the event years later to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and his wife <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah</a> on the train which is carrying them out of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m76">Montelero</a> to safety in Panama. The only other person who has heard the story is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>. [CT]

<a name="n07"></a>necktie: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> fashions a red suede necktie lined with plastic explosive. The device is detonated after a ten second delay by unscrewing an imitation diamond set in a long and heavy silver mounting on the front of the tie. Willie uses the tie to kill <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p01">Pacco</a>following <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n12">Nicole's</a> death. [MB]

<a name="n08"></a>Nedic: a former member of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a> and one of three men, along with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g08">Rafael Garcia</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k31">Krolli</a>, to support <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> following the death of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l47">Henri Louche</a>. [NM, BM] Nedic was a victim of one of the organization's rare non-profit-making operations: the crushing of a narcotics ring in Morocco, in which he lost part of his right arm. He became one of seven men to receive a pension from a special fund set up by Modesty in The Network's early days. Nedic leads Modesty and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> to the labour battalion in Yugoslavia where Krolli is serving his ten year sentence. [IL]

<a name="n10"></a>New Provident and Commercial Bank: the bank in Macao owned by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s62">Wu Smith</a>, and used by him to finance any criminal projects that he deems sound. [SM]

<a name="n11"></a>Nico: a member of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a>, participating in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#b17">Operation Baystrike</a>. Using the name <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#a35">Herb Ashton</a>, he poses as one of the CIA agents who abducts <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and takes her to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#o06">Old Hickory</a>. [NM]

<a name="n12"></a>Nicole: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie's</a> girls, Nicole also had an intimate relationship with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p01">Pacco</a>, and sang at his cabaret <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#l22">Le Gant Rouge</a>. Nicole is killed by Pacco's men on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> orders when she raises suspicions by asking questions about Gabriel and diamonds, at Willie's request. [MB]

<a name="n13"></a>The Night Of Morningstar: the eleventh Modesty Blaise book, published in 1982 and abbreviated NM. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> take on more than they bargained for when they declare war on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a> following the death of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c43">Ben Christie</a>.

<a name="n14"></a>Nobby: one of the boys from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie's</a> orphanage who worked for the radio and TV repair shop, where he received sexual favors from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#g37">Grace</a>. [XT]

<a name="n15"></a>Nolan, Erica: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie's</a> girls, a 27 year-old Professor of Sociology at the LSE. He found her philosophical convictions hilarious, but her physical parts exerted a compelling attraction on him. [IV]

<a name="n16"></a>Novikov, Ilona: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n17">Mischa Novikov's</a> wife. [IV]

<a name="n17"></a>Novikov, Mischa: a member of the KGB, working in the High Altitude Reconnaissance Section. When Novikov discovers a substantial gold deposit in an undeveloped area of Africa, he defects to France with his wife <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n16">Ilona</a>. He approaches <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel</a> for assistance in exploiting his find. Brunel has him tortured so that he'll reveal the coordinates of the deposit, allowing Brunel to take it for himself. Novikov escapes and makes his way to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#k03">Kalimba</a>, where he is found, shortly before his death, by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m40">John</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m39">Angel Mbarraha</a>, who take him to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p24">Dr. Giles Pennyfeather</a>. [IV]

<a name="o01"></a>O'Leary: a member of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a> who boarded the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#i12">Isparta</a> in the break up of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b56">Bora's</a> operation. [NM]

<a name="o04"></a>Okubo: a brilliant Japanese scientist. Okubo defected to the Soviet Union at the age of 24. When he appears to want to return to the West 16 years later, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> must find a way to get him safely out of East Berlin. When <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> succeed in getting Okubo across the Berlin Wall, it is learned that the man claiming to be Okubo is actually <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#y03">Yoshida</a>, a Japanese agent working for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s85">Major-General Starov</a>. He pretended to be the scientist in the hope that Tarrant's sleeper network of agents would be activated, and subsequently revealed, as they helped Okubo escape. [GW]

<a name="o05"></a>"Old Alex": a short story published in Cobra Trap, abbreviated OA. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> rescue by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m62">Old Alex Mirot</a> from an assassination attempt sets in motion a chain of events which leads to the eventual destruction of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s09">Salmander Four</a>. Note: this story is a direct sequel to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d21">Dead Man's Handle</a>.

<a name="o06"></a>Old Hickory: the fishing boat from which <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a> plan to launch <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#b17">Operation Baystrike</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c43">Ben Christie</a> and later <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> are held captive on the Old Hickory. The pair escape from the boat and are in the water for many hours before reaching San Francisco Bay. Following the failed attempt on the Golden Gate Bridge, the boat is scuttled at sea. [NM]

<a name="o07"></a>'Orace ('Jacko'): an Aboriginal friend of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a>. He and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p32">Bluey Peters</a> worked for Modesty in the days of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a> running one of her motor fishing vessels in the Mediterranean. 'Orace attends the meeting of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage15.htm#p55">Prison Abolition Society</a> with Peters and identifies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b39">Simon Bird</a> from the scent on the white cotton glove that was found with the body of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n04">Johnny Nash</a>. [GBB]

<a name="o08"></a>Orient Society For The Disabled: a fake charity fund with an account at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s62">Wu Smith's</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n10">New Provident and Commercial Bank</a> in Macao. Victims of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik's</a> blackmail scheme make their monthly payments to the charity account. [SM]

<a name="o09"></a>Orozco: a guard at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>, shot by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> from the chair-lift leading to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p08">Paradise Peak</a>. [DC]

<a name="o10"></a>Orsita: the South American town where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> meets <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#j18">Reverend Leonard Jimson</a>, on her way to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s14">San Tremino</a> to see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g08">Garcia</a>. [BDD]

<a name="o11"></a>oscillator: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie's</a> gadgets, the transistorized oscillator sends out a train of pulses from a multivibrator at a frequency very close to that of the line timebase of the closed circuit television in the office of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#d35">The Director</a> of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m87">Musée Mattioret</a>, destroying its picture and allowing <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> to use a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d31">device</a> constructed by Willie to coat the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w09">Watteau</a> painting unobserved. [ST]

<a name="o12"></a>Osmani: an opponent of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. [LDL]

<a name="o13"></a>Osslund: the false identity adopted by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> when she accompanies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#g10">Willie</a> to East Berlin on their annual antique buying excursions. Willie poses as Swedish antique dealer <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#j26">Sven Jorgensen</a>. Modesty poses as Osslund when she and Willie go to East Berlin to help Okubo escape. [GW]

<a name="o14"></a>Ozymandias: a gorilla kept by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel</a> in a cage at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b52">Bonaccord</a>. After Brunel's death, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m83">Jacko Muktar</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c25">Adrian Chance</a> lock <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p24">Dr. Giles Pennyfeather</a> in the cage, thinking it will mean their deaths. The pair are able to escape by getting Ozymandias to imitate them when they begin pulling at the bars. The animal's great strength allows him to separate the bars far enough for the two to squeeze through. [IV]