"Harry Johnson", likely a pseudonym, was a operative and assassin affiliated with wealthy businessman and SMERSH associate, Sin Jai-Seong (AKA. Jason Sin). The character served as a minor henchman in Anthony Horowitz's 2015 James Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis.
Biography[]
Trigger Mortis[]
Likely using an assumed identity, Harry Johnson was described as 44 or 39, with a long, square, drawn-out face, creases in his cheeks and closely cropped grey hair. He customarily wore a gold signet ring, Brooks Brothers suit, a button-down shirt and penny loafers. His accent was flat and Manhattan. An associate of SMERSH operative Sin Jai-Seong, Johnson was involved in a plot to destroy the U.S. space program for the Soviets by staging a fake rocket crash in the middle of Manhattan, New York. During 1957,[1] he was tasked with bribing a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) supervisor, Thomas Keller, into sabotaging their new Vanguard space rocket. On their fourth meeting the deed was done and he exchanged an attaché case filled with $250,000 in (counterfeit) currency provided by the Russians.
When James Bond inadvertently stumbled upon the plot and began investigating at the NRL launch facility at Wallops Island, Virginia, Johnson followed him from the base to his motel on Route 13. After ensuring that 007 would not leave, he returned at 2am with a task-force of six other men, all wearing night camouflage and heavily armed. He lay prone, operating the recently introduced M60 gas-operated, belt-fed machine gun. Using it, he demolished Bond's motel room - spraying it with a hail of armor-piercing gunfire. 007 had taken precautions and had moved into the room below, and as he attempted to escape he was pinned down behind a car by Johnson's suppressing fire. The spy is rescued by U.S. Treasury agent Jeopardy Lane, who strikes and kills Johnson with her car as he attempts to block her exit.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Horowitz, Anthony (2015). "Chapter 15: Follow the Money", Trigger Mortis (in English). Hachette UK, p.185. ISBN 9781409159155. “[this counterfeit note is] at least seven years old ... Back in 1950 they made a few changes to the design.”