Col. Maxim Maximovich Isayev
A top NKVD agent, Maxim Isayev (b. 1900) spent the War under deep cover as an SS officer. Now assigned to SMERSH, his ongoing mission is to find enemy agents and provocateurs, infiltrate their operations, and neutralize them once he has obtained enough information. He operates out of Bombay, but his remit is global; before the War he worked out of Paris and Shanghai, and knows both well. NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria trusts him, knowing that despite his bourgeois tastes for cognac and Silk Cut cigarettes, Isayev’s loyalty is absolute.
Isayev is calm, stoic, and always plausible. He is handsome in an intellectual way, in excellent shape for his age, but not particularly youthful. Isayev might infiltrate the heroes’ operations as a potential ally, or hire them (using another identity) to snarl up some British or Japanese agent’s plans. He might, if they seem to be devoted anti-Communists, try recruiting the heroes under a false flag, posing as “Oscar Stirling” of the SIS. (His Oxbridge accent is perfect, and the late unlamented Kim Philby provided him with a bulletproof SIS cover.) In the final extremity, he might have to kill them, but he’d rather not: he prefers to out-think and out-maneuver his opponents, leaving them happy and ignorant while Soviet aims silently advance.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d12, Spirit d10, Strength d6, Vigor d12
Skills: Driving d10, Fighting d8, Gambling d12, Guts d12, Intimidation d10, Investigation d8, Knowledge (Tradecraft) d12+2, Lockpicking d8, Notice d10, Persuasion d12+2, Piloting d8, Shooting d8, Stealth d8, Streetwise d12
Charisma: +0, Pace: 6, Parry: 6, Toughness: 8.
Edges: Alertness, Bump for Languages, Connections, Danger Sense, Expert (Persuasion, Tradecraft), Harder to Kill, Improved Arcane Resistance, Improved Level-Headed, Investigator, Professional (Persuasion, Tradecraft), Strong Willed
Hindrances: Wanted (by the SIS)
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