Olivier Cesari, professionally known as Le Gérant, is the leader of the criminal syndicate "The Union". He serves as the overarching main villain of the Union Trilogy (I.E. High Time to Kill, Doubleshot and Never Dream of Dying) of the Raymond Benson James Bond Novels, with him appearing in person in the third one.
Novel Biography[]
Early life[]
Cesari is the son of Corsican Mafia member and perfume business legend Joseph Cesari and a Berber girl whom he raped. He was raised in the Berber culture until he was eight years old and his father took him to live with him. While with his father, Cesari learned that he was a type of Corsican psychic called a Mazzere. This means that in his dreams he is a wolf stalking various other animals, and that when he catches them they will die. Cesari then lived in Corsica and France until his graduation in 1970 from a university in Paris, after which all information on his came to a halt. It is however revealed that after his "disappearance", he returned to Morocco to live with his mother. In 1973, Olivier's father was found dead with his throat cut ear to ear, the trademark of The Union). Back with the Berbers, Cesari became a sort of folk hero, and was generous enough with the money he had earned and provided employment to so many people, that they would do what he asked without question.
High Time to Kill[]
The Chinese have contacted The Union in hopes of securing the Skin 17 formula from the DERA. After Ming Chow (alias Lee Ming) have unwittingly crashed their plane in Himalayas to avoid the authorities from getting the Skin 17 formula, contained within Chow's pacemaker, Le Gérant summons Steve Harding to the Union Headquarters in Casablanca.
There, Le Gérant deems that Harding has betrayed the organization out of greed and has has the latter killed. He has been informed that, besides the Chinese who the Union were to deliver Skin 17, that the Russian mafia has become interested in Skin 17.
Ultimately, none of the Union's agents are able to secure Skin 17, which is returned to the British by James Bond.
Doubleshot[]
The Union is contacted by Spanish Domingo Espada, who desires the Union resources to help him bring the British-controlled Gibraltar under Spanish control. Hosting a meeting in Casablanca, Cesari/Le Gérant and the other high-ranking Union leaders agree to help him, as it provides a chance to get revenge on James Bond and the British for foiling the retrieval of Skin-17.
The operation is a failure and at the end of the novel, Cesari/Le Gérant swears revenge upon Bond.
Never Dream of Dying[]
Under the alias Pierre Rodiac, Cesari makes fortunes at a casino in Monaco. While at his father's home in Corsica, he captures James Bond and tortures him after telling him his plan to finance and arrange for Goro Yoshida an attack on the Cannes Film Festival. During another torture session, Cesari reveals to Bond that In his dreams he has been chasing a "majestic stag" whom he believes represents Bond. He eventually dreams that he has killed the stag and lures Bond into a cove under his house, where He reveals his relation to Marc-Ange Draco and flees. Cesari tries to escape the area in a helicopter but Bond destroys it with a grenade launcher, killing Cesari in the process.
Trivia[]
- "Le Gérant" is French for "the manager".
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