Nigel Forester – Gerace
Forester, Nigel: <a href="mbpage06.htm#f24">Mary Forester's</a> husband. The couple sell markers to be used in a contest to see who can come the closest to guessing <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> landing point following his hang-gliding demonstration. [DC]
<a name="f26"></a>Forli: one of the men who abducts <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> in Lisbon as part of <a href="mbpage05.htm#d25">Mike Delgado's</a> plan to show their aptitude for roles as leaders in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. [ST]
<a name="f27"></a>Forster: one of four members of <a href="mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a> who were seen by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> during <a href="mbpage01.htm#b17">Operation Baystrike</a> and could be identified by her. The other three were <a href="mbpage02.htm#b47">Blik</a>, <a href="mbpage17.htm#s98">Szabo</a> and <a href="mbpage13.htm#o02">Hugh Oberon</a>. Forster posed as one of the two CIA agents - <a href="mbpage14.htm#p31">Jake Perry</a> and <a href="mbpage01.htm#a35">Herb Ashton</a>- who abducted Modesty and took her to the <a href="mbpage13.htm#o06">Old Hickory</a>. [NM]
<a name="f28"></a>Fothergill, Mrs.: a member of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> criminal organization. Mrs. Fothergill kills <a href="mbpage08.htm#g39">Ivor Grant</a> by choking him to death. When <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> are attempting to escape from the monastery with the two boxes of diamonds, Mrs. Fothergill confronts Modesty. Mrs. Fothergill is killed in the resulting battle. [MB]
<a name="f29"></a>Fouad: an Arab guard at <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. [DC]
<a name="f30"></a>Fournier, Jeanne: the name that <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> gives to <a href="mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse</a> as his next assignment, at the El Greco on <a href="mbpage10.htm#l14">Lanzarote</a>. Upon arriving at Lanzarote, Danny learns that Jeanne Fournier is actually Modesty herself. [LDL, DA]
<a name="f31"></a>Franklin: a former operative of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. [LDL]
<a name="f32"></a>Franklyn: a CIA official controlling <a href="mbpage04.htm#c43">Ben Christie's</a> plan to infiltrate <a href="mbpage19.htm#w07">The Watchmen</a> from the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. [NM]
<a name="f33"></a>Fraser, John ('Jack'): a British civil servant, <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> assistant. Fraser served as an agent in the field for many years before being posted to a desk job. His penetration and destruction of the Pague Syndicate was a classic operation. He has worked long to create the image of a bumbling civil servant. [MB, TFD] Fraser has a close watch put on both <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>, in the hope that they will lead to <a href="mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman</a>. [BM] Fraser travels to Tangier to trail Modesty and Willie in case they are unable to communicate with Tarrant after they are approached to join <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. When Modesty learns that <a href="mbpage03.htm#b80">Lucille Brouet</a> has been kidnapped, she slips a knock-out pill into Fraser's drink so that she and Willie can depart without his interference. [ST] Fraser breaks into <a href="mbpage02.htm#b61">Boulter's</a> department at the Foreign Office and steals information about <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff's</a> protection racket when Boulter refuses to share the information with Tarrant. [IL] Fraser helps Modesty and Willie orchestrate the theft of the safe containing the <a href="mbpage17.htm#s52">Singapore papers</a> from <a href="mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel's</a> house in London. [IV] Fraser breaks the Official Secrets Act to tell Modesty and Willie about Tarrant's predicament regarding Soviet defector <a href="mbpage13.htm#o04">Okubo</a>: how to get the scientist over the Berlin Wall without activating and endangering his sleeper network of agents in East Berlin. [GW] Fraser calls <a href="mbpage19.htm#v10">René Vaubois</a> with the news that Modesty and Willie have failed to report in after going to <a href="mbpage04.htm#c36">Chateau Lancieux</a> in an attempt to rescue Tarrant, who they believe is being held captive there by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik</a>. [SM] Fraser tells Modesty that Tarrant has left for Heathrow to see off <a href="mbpage10.htm#k22">Howard A. Keyes</a>. [DA] Fraser gives <a href="mbpage18.htm#t26">Maude Tiller</a> the assigment to accompany Willie on his trek through the Gautemalan jungle to rescue the slaves from <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. [LDL] Fraser runs into Willie and <a href="mbpage08.htm#g23">Lady Janet Gillam</a> while accompanying his nephew <a href="mbpage11.htm#m10">Malcolm</a> to a funfair at Blackheath. Fraser receives confirmation of <a href="mbpage16.htm#r56">John Ryan's</a> death from René Vaubois. [DC] Fraser takes great delight in telling Tarrant that Boulter is the mysterious recipient of the <a href="mbpage14.htm#p03">Pahlavi Crown</a>. [XT] Fraser tells Modesty that the number called by <a href="mbpage13.htm#o02">Hugh Oberon</a> on <a href="mbpage04.htm#c24">Bernie Chan's</a> phone belongs to <a href="mbpage17.htm#s81">Major the Earl St. Maur</a>. [NM] Fraser overrides Tarrant's objections to inform Modesty and Willie of the death of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n04">Johhny Nash</a>and seek their assistance in rescuing <a href="mbpage08.htm#h05">Tor Hallenberg</a>. [GBB]
<a name="f34"></a>Frayne: a member of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim's</a> organization. Frayne is an explosives expert, in charge of the scuttling of the <a href="mbpage11.htm#m18">Marimba</a> as part of the <a href="mbpage08.htm#h04">Hallelujah Scenario</a>. [DMH]
<a name="f35"></a>Freddie The Twirl: a member of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim's</a> <a href="mbpage09.htm#h29">Hostel Of Righteousness</a>. He opens the locked case carried by <a href="mbpage14.htm#p06">Papadakis</a>, the contents of which reveal how much the reporter has learned since arriving on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a>. [DMH]
<a name="f36"></a>Free Kuwait Government: the name of an alleged government-in-exile headed by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s69">Es-Sabah Solon</a>. Solon is attempting to gain credibility for <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> <a href="mbpage10.htm#k35">Kuwait Liberation Army</a> in order to prevent western powers from making a counter-move after Karz invades Kuwait. [ST]
<a name="f37"></a>Frensham: one of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p24">Dr. Giles Pennyfeather's</a> lecturers in medical school. He had a seizure in the middle of a lecture once after becoming enraged because he thought Giles wasn't listening. [XT]
<a name="f38"></a>Frezzi, Alfredo: a Maltan criminal who is hired by Sam Solon to bug <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> villa and determine if <a href="mbpage06.htm#f18">Luke Fletcher's</a> memories of his ordeal on <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a> are still blocked. Frezzi sends <a href="mbpage18.htm#t13">Tasso</a> and <a href="mbpage12.htm#m75">Montale</a> to watch the villa, but Modesty has little trouble with them. [DC]
<a name="f39"></a>Friends of the Kuwait Freedom Society, The: the name of the group sponsoring a lecture by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s69">Es-Sabah Solon</a>. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> attend the lecture, at the request of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a>. [ST]
<a name="f40"></a>Frobisher: one of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> men, involved in the search for <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a> and <a href="mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah Pilgrim</a>. [TFD]
<a name="f41"></a>Fuad: the leader of a nomadic tribe. The two heavies who were bothering <a href="mbpage04.htm#c49">Claudine</a> are leased to Fuad's tribe for six months by Saad. [BM]
<a name="f42"></a>Fuller-Jones, Lucy: a woman in her mid-twenties who took up <a href="mbpage01.htm#b08">ballooning</a> to sublimate the earthly aspects of her nature. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> meets Lucy at the meeting of the <a href="mbpage15.htm#p55">Prison Abolition Society</a>, where she unwittingly informs <a href="mbpage13.htm#m81">Mountjoy</a> and <a href="mbpage02.htm#b39">Simon Bird</a> of Willie's real name. Lucy later helps <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and Willie rescue <a href="mbpage08.htm#h05">Tor Hallenberg</a> from <a href="mbpage15.htm#p48">Poldeacon</a> with the use of her balloon. [GBB]
<a name="f43"></a>Fuller: a disliked member of <a href="mbpage15.htm#r05">Rand's Club</a> who is defeated by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> in a game of <a href="mbpage17.htm#s64">snooker</a>. [IL]
<a name="f44"></a>Fuzulli: a guard at <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. [DC]
<a name="g01"></a>G3QRM-HP: <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> amateur radio call-sign. [TFD, IV, DC]
<a name="g02"></a>G3QRO: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> amateur radio call-sign. [TFD, DC]
<a name="g03"></a>Gabriel: a criminal mastermind, and a rival of <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in the days of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. Gabriel plots to steal the £10,000,000 worth of diamonds being shipped to <a href="mbpage01.htm#a05">Sheik Abu-Tahir</a>. When Modesty and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> foil his plans, Gabriel manages to escape from the monastery on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k05">Kalithos</a>, along with <a href="mbpage12.htm#m48">McWhirter</a>. [MB] He later teams up with <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a> in an attempt to recover the <a href="mbpage07.htm#g06">Garamantes treasure</a> buried at <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a>, with the assistance of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah Pilgrim's</a> psychic abilities. Gabriel is killed by Delicata after Modesty and Willie escape from Mus, freeing the other captives in the process. [TFD]
<a name="g04"></a>Gamarra: a Bolivian soldier in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army, serving in the section commanded by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>. Gamarra was the first to spend a night with <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> in Karz's <a href="mbpage16.htm#s41">seraglio</a> following her defeat of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t38">The Twins</a>. Willie buries one of his <a href="mbpage10.htm#k28">knives</a> almost to the hilt in Gamarra's neck as he and Modesty begin their escape from Karz's valley in the Hindu Kush. [ST]
<a name="g05"></a>Gambetta, Captain: the captain of the <a href="mbpage01.htm#a03">Abosso</a>. [NM]
<a name="g06"></a>Garamantes treasure: the treasure buried at <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a>, consisting of jewels from Garamantes, and gold and silver collected by Domitian Mus, the Roman soldier for whom the city is named. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a> are employed by <a href="mbpage15.htm#p53">Sir Howard Presteign</a> to take over the archeological dig at Mus and find the treasure, with the help of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah Pilgrim's</a> psychic abilities. When <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> kills Delicata at <a href="mbpage02.htm#b57">Bordj Kerim</a>, he buries the treasure nearby, after first taking a couple of rubies from one of the boxes. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> suggests that the rubies should be set in a pair of silver napkin rings and presented to Dinah and <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> as a wedding present. [TFD]
<a name="g07"></a>Garat, Jacques: 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>, Garat, along with <a href="mbpage03.htm#b62">Gaston Bourget</a> and <a href="mbpage16.htm#s42">Servalle</a>, is killed by <a href="mbpage16.htm#s43">Sexton</a>. [SM]
<a name="g08"></a>Garcia, Rafael: a former member of the Louche group, Garcia was the only member of organization to back <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> when she attempted to take over following <a href="mbpage11.htm#l47">Henri Louche's</a> death. Garcia was Modesty's second-in-command until that position was taken over by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>. [LDL, DMH, BM] Garcia was responsible for general administration, and for the disposal of precious metals and stones. [NM] When Modesty dissolved <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>, Garcia retired a rich man. News that the sixty year-old Garcia is now dying in <a href="mbpage16.htm#s14">San Tremino</a>, his home town, brings Modesty and Willie to Uruguay for a final visit. On the way to see Garcia, the bus Modesty is riding is hijacked by some of <a href="mbpage06.htm#e06">El Mico's</a> men. [BDD] Garcia had turned down <a href="mbpage10.htm#k30">Little Krell's</a> application to work for The Network, knowing that he had previously worked for <a href="mbpage15.htm#r32">Rodelle</a>. [XT]
<a name="g09"></a>Garcia: a member of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff's</a> group, Garcia trains the two <a href="mbpage06.htm#d38">dolphins</a> <a href="mbpage14.htm#p46">Pluto</a> and <a href="mbpage01.htm#b20">Belial</a> used to retrieve the <a href="mbpage03.htm#b88">buoys</a> containing the protection money after they are dropped in the ocean. Garcia is shot by <a href="mbpage15.htm#r11">Regina</a> as she and Seff attempt to escape after <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>return to rescue <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and <a href="mbpage11.htm#l51">Lucifer</a>. [IL]
<a name="g10"></a>Garvin, Willie: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> second-in-command in <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. An Englishman, Willie was raised by his "auntie," a drunken prostitute, following the death of his unmarried mother. He spent time in an orphanage, and used some homemade fireworks to set fire to <a href="mbpage05.htm#d32">Dicer's</a> bed the night he ran away. While in his early twenties, Willie worked for a circus for a brief period. He was in an approved school in England, and later disappeared abroad after serving two prison terms in his native country. When she was 20, Modesty saw Willie - eight years her senior - for the first time, following his discharge from the Foreign Legion. He was fighting in a Thai-style contest in Saigon, and was arrested after the match. A week later, she bought him out of jail. Willie's first job for The Networkwas the delivery of $10,000 worth of gold to <a href="mbpage06.htm#f06">Fenton</a> in Hong Kong, and the retreival of $50,000 worth of bearer certificates from <a href="mbpage11.htm#l49">Wei Lu</a>. The job had gone wrong, through no fault of Willie's, but he was able to complete the task successfully through his own initiative. Within a year, he was Modesty's second-in-command. Following the breakup of The Network, Willie returned to England, where he purchased <a href="mbpage18.htm#t35">The Treadmill</a>, a public house. Willie is one of the deadliest men in the world with a <a href="mbpage10.htm#k28">knife</a>. He often carries a pair of throwing knives in a harness worn either under his shirt, or stitched to the lining of his jacket. Willie's ears prickle when he senses danger, and he can quote verses from the Book of Psalms to suit any occasion, thanks to a year he spent in a jail in Calcutta, with nothing to read but a "Psalter." Although he normally speaks with a pronounced Cockney accent, Willie is able to adopt any accent "from BBC to Nashville" as part of a disguise. Willie has his pilot's license, and speaks four languages fluently, including English, French and Arabic. Beginning during his days in The Network, Willie had gone off on his own every year for five or six weeks. He had spent this time diving for the matched pearls he requires for a <a href="mbpage14.htm#p17">necklace</a> he is making for Modesty. Willie is completely hopeless in a kitchen, but is able to prepare appetizing meals if turned loose in the woods with nothing. Willie has a scar on the back of his right hand, shaped like an uncompleted 'S.' It had been made by a man named <a href="mbpage17.htm#s92">Suleiman</a>, who was unable to complete his task when Modesty broke his neck. Willie is a part owner of <a href="mbpage08.htm#g31">Gogol's Circus</a>, in partnership with <a href="mbpage08.htm#g32">Georgi Gogol</a>, and for several years has spent a few weeks with the circus, either touring or in winter quarters. Willie has devised and/or constructed a number of gadgets that he and Modesty make use of during their capers. See the individual entries for details on the following: <a href="mbpage05.htm#d31">device used in theft of painting</a>, <a href="mbpage11.htm#l37">lipstick</a>, <a href="mbpage13.htm#n07">necktie</a>, <a href="mbpage13.htm#o11">oscillator</a>, <a href="mbpage15.htm#r01">radar</a>, <a href="mbpage17.htm#s89">stethostrobic pulse detector</a>, and <a href="mbpage18.htm#t34">transmitters</a>. Willie's regular girlfriend when he's at home is <a href="mbpage08.htm#g23">Lady Janet Gillam</a>, who owns a farm located near The Treadmill. He has also had relationships of a less serious nature with a number of other woman. See the individual entries for details of each of Willie's girls: <a href="mbpage01.htm#a08">Adrienne</a>, <a href="mbpage01.htm#a10">Aileen</a>, <a href="mbpage01.htm#a15">Aliki</a>, <a href="mbpage01.htm#a23">Anita</a>, <a href="mbpage01.htm#a24">Annie</a>, <a href="mbpage03.htm#b71">Brenda</a>, <a href="mbpage03.htm#c09">Carol</a>, <a href="mbpage04.htm#c49">Claudine</a>, <a href="mbpage06.htm#d39">Dorah</a>, <a href="mbpage06.htm#d40">Doreen</a>, <a href="mbpage06.htm#f21">Flying Francesca</a>, <a href="mbpage07.htm#g16">Geneveive</a>, <a href="mbpage08.htm#g37">Grace</a>, <a href="mbpage09.htm#i04">Ilse</a>, <a href="mbpage09.htm#j28">Julie</a>, <a href="mbpage10.htm#l07">Lala</a>, <a href="mbpage11.htm#l55">Luisa</a>, <a href="mbpage12.htm#m34">Maureen</a>, <a href="mbpage12.htm#m36">Mavis</a>, <a href="mbpage12.htm#m49">Melanie</a>, <a href="mbpage12.htm#m73">Monique</a>, <a href="mbpage13.htm#n12">Nicole</a>, <a href="mbpage13.htm#n15">Erica Nolan</a>, <a href="mbpage15.htm#r43">Rosita[1]</a>, <a href="mbpage15.htm#r45">Rosita[3]</a>, <a href="mbpage17.htm#s56">Siv</a>, and <a href="mbpage19.htm#v13">Veronica</a>. Willie dies shortly after Modesty of a gunshot wound suffered while attempting to hold off the <a href="mbpage04.htm#c53">Cobras</a> who are advancing on 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 <a href="mbpage04.htm#c56">Dinah</a>, to safety in neighbouring Panama.
<a name="g11"></a>Gasparro[1]: a member of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p01">Pacco's</a> criminal organization. [MB]
<a name="g12"></a>Gasparro[2]: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. He acts as a runner during the fight against <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a>. [LDL]
<a name="g13"></a>Gautier, Louis: the false name adopted by <a href="mbpage12.htm#m22">Bernard Martel</a> while working in <a href="mbpage06.htm#e07">El Mico's</a> organization. [XT]
<a name="g14"></a>Geibel, Hilde: the false name given by <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> when she goes to <a href="mbpage08.htm#h20">Haus Lobigo</a> on the pretense of looking at it on behalf of someone interested in renting it. [IL]
<a name="g15"></a>Geiss: a senior official of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a>. [SF]
<a name="g16"></a>Geneveive: one of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> girls, she suffered from arachibutyrophobia - the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Willie cured her of the phobia by getting her to bite into a piece of bread upside down after she'd spread it with peanut butter. [DMH]
<a name="g17"></a>Geoffrey: a resident of <a href="mbpage02.htm#b24">Benildon</a> who makes the announcements at the fête where <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> gives a <a href="mbpage08.htm#h12">hang-gliding</a> demonstration. [DC]
<a name="g18"></a>George: the porter at <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> apartment building. He brings meals to <a href="mbpage19.htm#w15">Weng</a>, who is monitoring the radio receiver for a message from Modesty on <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a>. [DMH] He informs Modesty of the arrival of <a href="mbpage16.htm#s27">Alexander Sayle</a>. [OA]
<a name="g19"></a>Gerace: a man employed by <a href="mbpage13.htm#m77">Montlero</a> to guard <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> in Lisbon while it is determined if they are suitable candidates as leaders in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. [ST]