Charles Henry Duggan is a head of British Secret Intelligence Service station 'G' in Bad Salzuflen, West Germany. The character appeared in Anthony Horowitz's 2015 James Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis.
Biography[]
At the time of Trigger Mortis, Charles Henry Duggan has been Head of Station G for the past decade, following the sub-section's formation in 1946.[1] Dressing in jackets and waistcoats in heavy checks and wearing brightly coloured ties, Duggan is described as physically obese, openly homosexual, "loud, bearded, frequently indiscreet, and often, at least in appearance, drunk".[1] He and his colleagues operate out of a nondescript office building close to the railway station in Bad Salzuflen, a town and thermal spa resort in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.[1]
Immediately after the war, Duggan had set up JUNK, an underground railway that ran agents into the satellite states of Russia, using the proceeds from selling cheap Swiss watches behind the Iron Curtain to entice 'wavering apparatchiks' to defect.[1] Notably, his efforts resulted in knowledge of Soviet chemical and biological warfare development.[1] Despite some ideological differences, Duggan and James Bond had been friends and colleagues for almost 15 years. He had served with Bond in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) during the Second World War and the pair had even shared a flat in Victoria. While impromptu investigating the activities of Jason Sin in Germany, James Bond meets with Duggan and exchanges information about the wealthy Korean's ties to SMERSH and his plot against the American space program. The station head subsequently arranges for 007's flight to New York.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Horowitz, Anthony (2015). "Chapter 12: Rocket Science", Trigger Mortis (in English). Hachette UK, p.144-146. ISBN 9781409159155.