John Gamble, Syndicate Lord (1919-?)

Born on August 1, 1919 to noted art thieves Melinda B. Gamble and George Farrier III, John Elemany Gamble grew up to become the leader of Global Exports Incorporated, a front for the infamous Tipher Syndicate.

Gamble’s early years were spent on the road, where he witnessed his parents stage elaborate heists at major art museums. Before his 18th birthday, he participated in the Great Monet Gamble, in which roughly thirteen paintings were stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including two Monets, a Rembrandt, and several undisplayed works in the museum’s underground collections. To date, the museum has refused to acknowledge the full list of stolen items, though statistical studies of black market auctions suggest some of the works were originally seized from the Nazis in 1944 during Operation Wicker Man. During this particular theft, Gamble established his calling card: a custom talking rabbit robot, which, upon discovery, sat up, sang a rewritten version of Old McDonald, and then exploded.

Gamble worked with his parents for thirteen years before an unknown argument set him on a different course. He attended Harvard University’s secretive Calamer College, which put him in touch with his earliest associates: Mitsubishi (assassin), Mati (con man), Tiffany (jewel thief), and Bill (unknown role). After graduating with honors in an unknown program in 1956, Gamble secured employment in the Tipher Syndicate, an international crime organization focused on nation-scaled economic and cultural manipulation. Together with then-crime-boss Viktor Cashmere, he helped facilitate the 1980s oil crash, took ownership of the Vatican, and established partial ownership of NASA. Ironically, it took these latest activities to place Gamble on the FBI and Interpol Most Wanted lists.

In 1992, Gamble became the primary target of agent Jimmy Coalition, a member of an international spy organization helmed by top agents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the British Secret Intelligence Service, the French Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure, and the Indian Anusandhāna Evaṁ Viśleṣaṇa Skandha. For nearly 30 years, Coalition and Gamble played cat-and-mouse, with Gamble managing increasingly more daring escapes involving custom helicopters, rockets, and even a pneumatic tube to the center of the Earth. Following these disruptions, Gamble became paranoid about his impending death, both from old age and from interference from Coalition. In the summer of 1996, he underwent an unknown gene therapy procedure which dramatically altered his longevity. Tissue samples acquired by Coalition in 1997 and examined by a private firm suggested that Gamble had de-aged. This was confirmed in 2005 when Gamble was spotted at Club Scheiße in Berlin; photos taken by Coalition revealed a man in his early 30s.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gamble presided over the Polish Initiative, which sought to destabilize Eastern Europe and drive property prices to rock bottom. If successful, the Tipher Syndicate would then purchase most of the property in the region and use the locations to found several thousand micronations on which to experiment with different forms of government. This effort was stopped by Jimmy Coalition in October 2020 during a joint Japanese and British raid on Gamble’s primary labs in Tibet. According to Coalition, Gamble was killed when he fell into the boiling coolant from an overheated nuclear reactor. However, the Tipher Syndicate denies this and no remnants of Gamble’s body have been found. In March 2021, an agent for the Polish Agencja Wywiadu claimed to have seen Gamble in Saxon Garden in Marszałkowska.

Currently, Gamble is listed as “deceased” by most international crime agencies.