Chester MacLean was a American employed by Industrias Scolopendra as harbourmaster at their shipyard on Isla de Pinos. He previously served as chief enforcer to Cuban industrialist, Scolopendra. The character served as a minor antagonist in Steve Cole's 2016 Young Bond novel, Heads You Die.
Biography[]
Early life[]
During the early 1930s, Chester MacLean served as chief enforcer to Scolopendra during his rise to power. When the industrialist wanted something to happen, MacLean saw to it. The villain did not ask for details. Gradually, MacLean was sidelined by Scolopendra's manipulative NKVD business partner and lover, La Velada. By 1934, MacLean was relegated to the position of harbourmaster at the shipyard on Isla de Pinos overseeing the construction of an enormous log raft designed to transport timber - and, secretly, smuggle poison-laced counterfeit bank notes into Great Britain as part of a Soviet plot to destabilize the country. In April, he faked the loss of timber during a storm and sold it cheaply to a competitor; resulting in construction of the raft falling behind schedule. United by their common detestation of La Velada, MacLean was paid by Scolopendra's daughter Jagua to get dirt on her.
Heads You Die[]
In the late summer 1934, an American CIP asset named Sarila Karatan broke into Scolopendra's poison laboratory on Isla de Pinos and stole a strongbox containing poisoned currency. Subsequent investigation by La Velada revealed that the operative had infiltrated the lab using a stolen shipyard truck; which had been parked outside the gates of the yard on MacLean's instruction. More damningly, a large amount of money had also been recently paid into his bank account. MacLean was abducted, beaten and taken to a suite at the Gran Casino in Havana by the villains' thugs - Ramón Mosqueda and El Puño. He remained unconscious there until Scolopendra and La Velada conducted his interrogation the following day. He failed to convince his boss of La Velada's duplicity and, despite his protestations of innocence, was shot through the head by Scolopendra after a coin toss. A bogus laundry truck came to collect the body at five o'clock.
