Tabby – Valdez
Tabby: a criminal working for <a href="mbpage13.htm#m81">Mountjoy's</a> organization who is supposed to pick up <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and deliver them to <a href="mbpage15.htm#p48">Poldeacon</a> after they are captured at the hotel to which they have followed Mountjoy and <a href="mbpage02.htm#b39">Simon Bird</a>. When he discovers that one of the victims is Willie - whom he had met previously - Tabby tells all he knows about their intended destination. [GBB]
<a name="t02"></a>Taff: a Welsh soldier in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. Taff serves in the section commanded by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a>, and had known him previously. [ST]
<a name="t03"></a>talisman: when <a href="mbpage12.htm#m24">Georges</a> and <a href="mbpage12.htm#m22">Bernard Martel</a> were children, they found two Napoleonic silver francs. The boys took an oath that each could use their coin once in their life to call on their brother for any service. When he thinks he is dying in the aftermath of the El Jadida <a href="mbpage06.htm#e01">earthquake</a>, Bernard Martel gives his talisman to <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and asks her to take it to Georges, hoping that his brother will rescue <a href="mbpage12.htm#m26">Tracy June Martel</a> from <a href="mbpage19.htm#x01">Xanadu</a>. [XT]
<a name="t04"></a>Tall Owl In The Tree: <a href="mbpage05.htm#d05">John Dall's</a> grandmother. [LDL]
<a name="t05"></a>Tall-Leg Lady: what <a href="mbpage11.htm#l46">Charlie Long Arrow</a> calls <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>. [LDL]
<a name="t06"></a>Talo: a Greek soldier in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. Talo serves as a technician in the transmitter hut. After <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> knocks Talo unconscious with her <a href="mbpage10.htm#k29">kongo</a>, <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> sends details of Karz's plan to <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> in a coded message addressed to <a href="mbpage12.htm#m56">Mercycorps</a>. [ST]
<a name="t07"></a>Tan Sin: a Malayan guard at <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. [DC]
<a name="t08"></a>Tangye, Mrs.: the wife of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t09">Professor Malcolm Tangye</a>. She accompanied her husband to <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a>, and was taken prisoner by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a>. [TFD]
<a name="t09"></a>Tangye, Professor Malcolm: the archeologist in charge of the dig at <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a>. He was taken prisoner by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a>, along with <a href="mbpage18.htm#t08">his wife</a> and the rest of the workers at the site. [TFD]
<a name="t10"></a>Tarquin: one of the men that <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> stops to help while driving to her cottage near <a href="mbpage02.htm#b24">Benildon</a> with <a href="mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse</a>. When he and his partner <a href="mbpage01.htm#a07">Adrian</a> begin to harass Modesty, <a href="mbpage10.htm#k22">Howard A. Keyes</a> comes to her rescue. Tarquin is actually one of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a>operatives; the encounter was intended to make Modesty volunteer her services as a bodyguard to Keyes. [DA]
<a name="t11"></a>Tarrant, Sir Gerald S.: a civil servant, the senior official of the Special Intelligence Section of the British Foreign Office, specializing in international espionage. Tarrant sang in amateur opera at a young age and fenced for England before 1939. He is a widower whose two sons were killed in World War II. Tarrant enlists <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> assistance in preventing the theft of <a href="mbpage01.htm#a05">Sheik Abu-Tahir's</a> diamonds, in return for information about <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> imprisonment. [MB] Tarrant sees Modesty and Willie in the presence of <a href="mbpage05.htm#c69">Paul Crichton</a> and <a href="mbpage18.htm#t20">Sandra Thorne</a>, respectively, but doesn't warn them, in the hope that he'll be led to <a href="mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman</a>. [BM] Tarrant's suspicions about a meeting of the <a href="mbpage07.htm#f39">Friends of the Kuwait Freedom Society</a> lead eventually to Modesty and Willie's involvement in destroying <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> <a href="mbpage16.htm#s03">Operation Sabre-Tooth</a>. [ST] Tarrant learns that <a href="mbpage19.htm#v10">René Vaubois</a> has been targeted by <a href="mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff's</a> protection racket from Modesty. [IL] He asks Modesty to go to the Sahara to check on the archeological dig at <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a> to allay the concerns of his friend <a href="mbpage01.htm#a01">Dr. Aaronson</a>, unaware that <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a> have taken over the dig and are searching for a lost treasure buried there. [TFD] The fear that Tarrant will lose his job prompts Modesty, Willie and <a href="mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser</a> to steal the <a href="mbpage17.htm#s52">Singapore papers</a> from <a href="mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel</a>. [IV] Tarrant reluctantly agrees to let Modesty and Willie try to bring Soviet defector <a href="mbpage13.htm#o04">Okubo</a> through the Berlin Wall, as an alternative to activating his sleeper network of agents in East Berlin. [GW] Tarrant is amused by Modesty's plan to steal £5,000 from <a href="mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn</a>after the businessman pinches her bottom while she's working as a flag-seller for <a href="mbpage12.htm#m55">Mental Health</a>. [SGC] Tarrant is abducted and tortured by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik</a>, who plans to use the information he extracts in an elaborate blackmail scheme. [SM] Tarrant tricks Modesty and Willie into serving as bodyguards for <a href="mbpage10.htm#k22">Howard A. Keyes</a>. [DA] Tarrant is the victim of a practical joke pulled by Willie with the aid of <a href="mbpage02.htm#b45">Blakeson</a>, the intent being to give <a href="mbpage18.htm#t26">Maude Tiller</a> something that will lighten her mood. [LDL] Tarrant is looking forward to his retirement when his successor-elect has a heart attack, causing his term to be extended for six months. He and <a href="mbpage08.htm#g23">Lady Janet Gillam</a> conspire to find out what happened to Modesty and Willie while on <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. [DC] Tarrant is the target of an assassination attempt by the <a href="mbpage15.htm#p49">Polish twins</a> designed to hide the fact that <a href="mbpage08.htm#g21">Hugo Gezelle's</a> failed crossbow attack was actually an attempt on Modesty's life. [NM] Tarrant provides the services of Maude Tiller when he is approached by <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and <a href="mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse</a> asking for assistance in locating Modesty and Willie. [DMH] Following her rescue by <a href="mbpage12.htm#m62">Old Alex Mirot</a> from a <a href="mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a> assassination attempt, Modesty calls upon Tarrant for help in finding out about Alex's background and reuniting him with his family in England. [OA] Tarrant is reluctant to involve Modesty and Willie in the death of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n04">Johnny Nash</a>. [GBB] Tarrant suffered a heart attack while visiting Modesty at her cottage near <a href="mbpage02.htm#b24">Benildon</a> five years after his retirement. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, holding Modesty's hand. [CT]
<a name="t12"></a>Tasso[1]: an associate of <a href="mbpage03.htm#c02">Calvanti</a> from Athens who will be present when <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> sells <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> sculptured rubies. [ST]
<a name="t13"></a>Tasso[2]: one of the men sent by <a href="mbpage07.htm#f38">Alfredo Frezzi</a> to bug <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> villa on <a href="mbpage11.htm#m11">Malta</a> and determine if <a href="mbpage06.htm#f18">Luke Fletcher</a> remembers anything of his time on <a href="mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. [DC]
<a name="t14"></a>A Taste For Death: the fourth Modesty Blaise book, published in 1969 and abbreviated TFD. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a> team up to recover the <a href="mbpage07.htm#g06">Garamantes treasure</a> buried at <a href="mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a>.
<a name="t15"></a>Tenazabal Temple: the temple where <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> is studying the Mayan calendar for the Cultural Institute of Guatemala at <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero's</a> request. <a href="mbpage04.htm#c56">Dinah Collier</a> is taken there when she is kidnapped by <a href="mbpage12.htm#m30">Martinez</a> and <a href="mbpage08.htm#g44">Gregg</a>. They plan to kill her in a ritual sacrifice that will be filmed for the benefit of <a href="mbpage02.htm#b25">Miss Benita</a>. [LDL]
<a name="t16"></a>Teresa: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> poses as Teresa, a red-haired dancer at a dance studio owned by <a href="mbpage04.htm#c24">Bernie Chan</a>. She allows herself to be picked up by Chan so that she, <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> can abduct Chan and find out on whose behalf he set up the contract on <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> with the <a href="mbpage15.htm#p49">Polish twins</a>. [NM]
<a name="t17"></a>Terry[1]: one of <a href="mbpage08.htm#g36">Dave Goss's</a> bodyguards. [DMH]
<a name="t18"></a>Terry[2]: a member of <a href="mbpage13.htm#m81">Mountjoy's</a> organization. [GBB]
<a name="t19"></a>Thamer: a Georgian commander in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. Thamar kills Karz after <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> destroy Karz's operation. [ST]
<a name="t20"></a>Thorne, Sandra: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman's</a> adopted daughter. She was drugged and rendered unconscious by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> when he and <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> broke into Bellman's house in Lima. Five years later, she helps lure Willie into Bellman's trap. It is only when her adopted father is near death that she finally realizes his true nature, and the reason why Modesty and Willie had framed him. [BM]
<a name="t21"></a>Thornton, Right Honourable Percival ('Pompous Percy'): a British cabinet minister, and <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> superior. An operative working for <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a> stole a Cezanne painting from Thornton while he was ambassador to France. Thornton tells <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>about the shipment of diamonds being made to <a href="mbpage01.htm#a05">Sheik Abu-Tahir</a> in payment for the oil concession to <a href="mbpage11.htm#m09">Malaurak</a>. [MB]
<a name="t22"></a>Three Meadows: a training facility used by British Intelligence. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> teaches there on occasion at the request of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a>. One of his students at Three Meadows is <a href="mbpage18.htm#t26">Maude Tiller</a>. [LDL]
<a name="t23"></a>Thurston: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. An Englishman, he was universally disliked for his aloof manner and his unreadiness to cooperate. [LDL]
<a name="t24"></a>Thuwaini, Ridha: the Minister of Foreign Affairs in <a href="mbpage17.htm#s69">Es-Sabah Solon's</a> <a href="mbpage07.htm#f36">Free Kuwait Government</a>. [ST]
<a name="t25"></a>thymoleptic drugs: <a href="mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel</a> attempts to brainwash <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> by feeding her thymoleptic drugs in her drinking water during her captivity at <a href="mbpage02.htm#b52">Bonaccord</a>. <a href="mbpage14.htm#p24">Dr. Giles Pennyfeather</a> recognizes the effects of the drugs when he sees Modesty, who has become confused and unable to concentrate. [IV]
<a name="t26"></a>Tiller, Maude: one of <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> operatives. Maude had handled the communications for a request job that <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> had done for Tarrant two years ago. She received humiliating treatment at the hands of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a> and <a href="mbpage05.htm#d08">Damion</a> while on an undercover assignment. Tarrant, who considers her to be a patriot, had sent Maude on the mission at the request of the CIA, who suspected Paxero in connection with the disappearance of a number of above-average, well-to-do people. Maude is one of Willie's students at <a href="mbpage18.htm#t22">Three Meadows</a>, and accompanies him on his trek through the jungle to rescue Modesty and the other slaves from <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. Following the successful completion of the mission, Maude goes on vacation to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands with <a href="mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse</a>. [LDL] Tarrant provides Maude's services unofficially when he is approached by <a href="mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and Danny Chavasse for assistance following the disappearance of Modesty and Willie. Maude accompanies Danny to Athens to meet <a href="mbpage10.htm#k31">Krolli</a>. She parachutes onto <a href="mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a> just as Modesty and Willie begin their escape, and is saved from serious injury in the battle to destroy <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim's</a> operation by her bullet-proof vest. [DMH]
<a name="t27"></a>Timmins: a member of the organization that also includes <a href="mbpage17.htm#s93">Brigadier George Sumner</a>, <a href="mbpage19.htm#w13">Harriet Welling</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. [DA]
<a name="t28"></a>Timpson, Mr.: <a href="mbpage15.htm#r46">Albert Ross's</a> partner who spends half of his time on duty dozing on a bench. [DC]
<a name="t29"></a>Toksvig: a mercenary in <a href="mbpage16.htm#s25">Sarrat's</a> section, mentioned as a possible candidate for promotion to commander. [ST]
<a name="t30"></a>Tokuda: one of three Japanese guards employed by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s90">Colonel Jim Straik</a>. [SM]
<a name="t31"></a>Toller: <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant's</a> liaison man in East Berlin. Toller runs a safe house. He helps <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> as they attempt to get Soviet defector <a href="mbpage13.htm#o04">Okubo</a> across the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. [GW]
<a name="t32"></a>Tom: <a href="mbpage15.htm#r46">Albert Ross's</a> cousin, a railway policeman. [DC]
<a name="t33"></a>Tonto: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. Tonto is a Dutchman, although <a href="mbpage05.htm#c74">Dr. Kim Crozier</a> is uncertain of the source of his nickname. [LDL]
<a name="t34"></a>transmitters: <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> alert <a href="mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> and <a href="mbpage08.htm#h01">Paul Hagan</a> to the location of <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> headquarters with a small radio transmitter made by Willie. Disassembled, the transmitter is carried in pieces inside a piece of foam rubber attached to Willie's back. The fine coil of wire that is the transmitter's aerial, and the balloon which carries it aloft, are hidden in the lining of Modesty's bra. [MB] Willie uses a transmitter to trip a radio-activated relay that cuts off the alarm system in <a href="mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn's</a> house. Willie installed the relay when he reconnoitered the house under the guise of an inspector from the <a href="mbpage06.htm#e09">Electricity Board</a>. [SGC] During their burglary of <a href="mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero's</a> Swiss villa, Modesty monitors Willie's progress from a radio transmitter in the pencil torch he carries. The receiver is hidden under her beret. Modesty later uses a homing transmitter constructed by Willie to alert him to the location of <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. It is able to transmit a signal for a couple of minutes a day for a period of three or four weeks. [LDL]
<a name="t35"></a>Treadmill, The: a two hundred year-old public house located a few miles from Maidenhead on three acres of ground on the Thames. It was purchased by <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> following the breakup of <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a>. Behind The Treadmill is a long brick building where <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>and Willie work out. The building has no windows and a special double door. Inside are a pistol range, a short archery range, a combat dojo, gym equipment, a sauna and showers. The far end of the building houses the workshop where Willie works on electronic devices and micro-engineering. Willie lives at The Treadmill, on an upper floor that he has had thoroughly modernized. The upper floor also contains a second bedroom suite for Modesty's use whenever she visits. The Treadmill is managed by <a href="mbpage17.htm#s78">Mr. Spurling</a>.
<a name="t36"></a>Tregarth, Inspector: the false name <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> gives over the phone to <a href="mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn</a>, who thinks he is speaking to the police about the burglary attempt at his house. [SGC]
<a name="t37"></a>Turina, Colonel: the area military commander in Peru who arrested <a href="mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman</a> on charges of subversion. [BM]
<a name="t38"></a>Twins, The: Siamese twins <a href="mbpage11.htm#l44">Lok</a> and <a href="mbpage04.htm#c45">Chu</a> are commanders in <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. Joined at the shoulder at birth, they were eventually separated, but found the separation to be psychologically unbearable. Although they hate each other, they cannot function unless they are connected by a shoulder harness, which links them with a six inch, leather-covered bar. Karz disposes of members of his army he deems <a href="mbpage18.htm#u02">Unsound</a> by having them face The Twins in armed combat. <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> faces The Twins and defeats them as part of her plan for her and <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> to escape from Karz's camp. [ST]
<a name="t39"></a>Tyboria, The: the passenger ship used to transport £10,000,000 worth of diamonds to <a href="mbpage01.htm#a05">Sheik Abu-Tahir</a>. <a href="mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> steals the diamonds by having <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> cut a hole in the hull of The Tyboria after it passes through the Suez Canal, after first attaching a diving bell to the ship. The diamonds are then taken away in the <a href="mbpage08.htm#g26">Giolitti</a>, leaving the diving bell behind. [MB]
<a name="t40"></a>Tyl, Dr. Janos: a Czech doctor employed by <a href="mbpage14.htm#p39">Thaddeus Pilgrim's</a> <a href="mbpage09.htm#h29">Hostel Of Righteousness</a>. His job is to assess requests for prayer, consider background information and suggest appropriate action in order that certain prayers be answered. His unethical and unacceptable experiments in mind control, which caused him to be outlawed by his chosen profession, brought him to the attention of Thaddeus Pilgrim. Dr. Tyl is the man responsible for brainwashing <a href="mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> into believing that <a href="mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> has been killed by <a href="mbpage05.htm#d27">Delilah</a>, that <a href="mbpage13.htm#n09">The Network</a> is still active, and that Tyl himself is actually <a href="mbpage07.htm#g08">Garcia</a>. Tyl is killed by Willie when he hits the doctor with his shield - thrown Frisbee-style - after he and Modesty defeat <a href="mbpage15.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]
<a name="u01"></a>Ugo: 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="u02"></a>Unsound: anyone who defies <a href="mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> orders is declared Unsound and must face <a href="mbpage18.htm#t38">The Twins</a> in armed combat. [ST]
<a name="v01"></a>Valdez: one of the slaves being held at <a href="mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>, a Paraguayan. Valdez is one 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] Following the rescue, Valdez chipped in with <a href="mbpage17.htm#s86">Stavros</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. He also bought Crozier an Aston Martin for Christmas. [NM]