EXTRACTS: The Modesty Blaise Companion Expanded Edition © 2018 The Book Palace (425 PAGES in Full edition)

T H E M O D E S T Y B L A I S E C O M P A N I O N I I 310 BECKWORTH, John “COBRA TRAP” P 82 “THE DARK ANGELS” Company director and city figure. Member of the secret group dedicated to keeping British industry British owned. BELIAL “I, LUCIFER” P 12 One of the dolphins trained by Mr. Garcia for the Seffs. BELIAL “COBRA TRAP” P 70 “THE DARK ANGELS” “THE DARK ANGELS” (MANUSCRIPT PRESS) P 1 One of the three Dark Angels, highly trained in combat and a superb gymnast. A reject from an elite unit of the armed forces having been classified as a psychopath. Drawn by Romero Drawn by Romero BELLMAN “COBRA TRAP” P 13 “BELLMAN” Major Mediterranean drug peddler handling three quarters of a ton of heroin a year. Ran a training school for pushers and taught them specifically how to hook children. Put out of business by The Network in Tangier. When he created a new organisation in Port Said he was again put out of business. Forced to move to South America, he started to operate from Lima. Framed by Modesty for planning a military coup there and made to serve a six year sentence in a labour squad in the emerald mines. Consumed with desire for revenge he has hired a remote Scottish island to which the kidnapped Modesty and Willie are taken. Has also hired three highly skilled mercenary killers, Charlie Brightstar, Paul Crichton and Van Rutte, each of them an ackowledged expert in his field, to hunt Modesty and Willie to the death. BENITA “LAST DAY IN LIMBO” P 27 The Mistress of Limbo. Tia Benita to Paxero, Miss Benita to the staff and slaves and Aunt Benita to everyone else. Having seen her own family massacred, she escaped with her young nephew, Paxero, backed him in business and he became very rich and powerful. To satisfy her comsuming hatred of the rich he built Limbo for her as a slave plantation deep in the Guatemalan jungle. Provided with fashionable international society magazines, she chooses rich people from the photographs and Paxero and Damion arrange for them to disappear and to be brought to Limbo to work as slaves. She views it as her small offering to the men, women and children of her country who were murdered, starved, or worked to death by the rich and greedy. Has a bad heart and requires constant medical supervision. BENSON “LAST DAY IN LIMBO” P 96 American doctor provided by John Dall to look after Lucifer. Helps maintain the fatasies Lucifer requires for his sanity when Modesty consults him about Danny Chavasse. Drawn by Jim Holdaway