Damon F. Larkham, also known as the Demon, is the leader of IG-88.
History[]
Early History[]
A former Colonel in the British SAS, Larkham evidently served with distinction during the 1990s, until 1999 when he was called into question during an investigation into Trevor Barnaby. After being court-martialed, Larkham was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment at Whitemoor Prison. However, during his transport to the prison, Larkham escaped, killing nine guards in the process, and went on the run.
Larkham soon became a bounty hunter, and created a group of bounty hunters, the Intercontinental Guard, Unit 88. His work as a bounty hunter led to his nickname, the Demon, and soon he became renowned as the world's number one bounty hunter.
At an unknown time, the Demon received extreme burns to his head, resulting in scars on his face and melting his earlobes into his head.
Scarecrow[]
When a bounty was set for fifteen targets, whose heads needed to be taken to a castle in France for verification, the Demon led IG-88 to claim as many of them as possible.
As they prepared to set out on the hunt, the Demon was contacted by a pair of MI6 agents, who requested that they capture General Ronson Weitzman alive first so that they could interrogate him before letting IG-88 claim his bounty. The Demon agreed, and not long after successfully abducting Weitzman, the Demon contacted his base to update and inform them that his team had discovered that a number of targets would be gathered at the Karpalov coalmine - including Elizabeth Gant, the girlfriend of another target, Shane Schofield - and would be moving in to obtain the targets.
The Demon and IG-88 infiltrated the mine during the Allied attack on the Al-Qaeda forces, emerging from behind the terrorists and forcing most of them to flee from their attackers into no-man's-land. After he and other members of IG-88 killed Nigel Kingsgate and Iman Khalif and took their heads, the Demon came across Gant, and he had her knocked out with the intention of using her as bait for Schofield. Cowboy reported to Demon that he had taken Hassan Zawahiri's head, but that William Ashcroft's had already been taken by the Skorpions. The Demon was satisfied enough with their haul that he ordered his men to depart.
IG-88 relocated to a British airbase in Kunduz, upon which the Demon sent Cowboy with the heads they'd collected to go to the castle to claim the bounties, as well as the still-living Weitzman, whom the MI6 agents would interrogate during the flight. The Demon himself took a squad to go to London to take the Mossad agent Benjamin Rosenthal.
After arriving at Canary Wharf, Demon's strike force assaulted the Mossad's offices at King's Tower, taking out several Mossad personnel in their search for Rosenthal. They encountered some resistance in a pair of Marines trying to find Rosenthal themselves, and soon Demon had their Lynx helicopters strafe the tower. Though they lost several men and one of the choppers, IG-88 was able to kill Rosenthal and take his head.
Soon the bounty was claimed for Rosenthal's head, at which point Demon discovered the Black Knight had killed his bounty-retrieval team and taken the heads he had collected from Afghanistan.
Soon afterwards, Demon and IG-88 tracked down either Schofield or Simon Zemir down to the Kormoran ship MV Talbot, where they opened fire on Zemir's protection squad as he tried to disarm the Chameleon missiles. However, Dmitri Zamanov and his remaining two Skorpions used IG-88's attack as a distraction as they took Zemir's head. As the Sayaret Tzanhim lost formation, Demon and his men decimated them before realising Zamanov had fled with their prize. They soon caught up to the Skorpions and took Zemir's head after killing Zamanov's men. Demon then spotted Schofield and had his men open fire, however in the chaos caused by another freighter's impact, Demon decided to try and seal the hatches to force Schofield to come to them, however the Talbot sank and Schofield escaped another way.
Once the hunt was over, the Demon learned the identity of Knight's employer, Lillian Mattencourt, and IG-88 arranged for a bomb to be planted in her car, which Demon detonated once Mattencourt had concluded her meeting with Knight. The Demon then casually approached Knight to note that, while he was annoyed at losing three heads to his rival bounty hunter, such was simply part of the nature of their occupation, and with Knight's payment now up in smoke, told Knight that he considered the debt settled and that they would see each other again on the next hunt.
Skills[]
- Expert Combatant: As a bounty hunter and former soldier in the SAS, the Demon has been trained in several forms of hand-to-hand combat.
- Expert Marksman: As a bounty hunter and former soldier, the Demon is an accurate marksman and capable of using a variety of different firearms. Larkham is also capable of using weapons that are custom modified, highly specialised, or atypical of those used by special forces.
Equipment[]
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Trivia[]
- Demon (having a disfigurement or odd feature like some of Reilly's other villains) has a severely scarred face/head, which has also melted his earlobes off.
- The Demon is one of only a few prominent villains in the Shane Schofield series to still be alive at the end of the novel of their debut.