So Scorpia felt betrayed and wanted it done right. He then had to kill, of course, to prove his worth, and was given the task of killing John Rider, because Scorpia had tried to kill John in Albert Bridge in London but had failed because John tricked them and faked his death. He ventured tentatively into Scorpia and eventually left MI6 when he knew he would get more money. Ash now hated MI6 and stopped being the patriot he used to.Ī new organization devoted to assassination and corruption was being formed at the time, named Scorpia and Ash immediately volunteered to become an assassin. But Ash was always in pain - Blunt humiliated him by saying it was his fault the operation screwed up, and he further humiliated him by giving him a desk job. Yassen nearly eviscerated Ash, but Ash was rescued by medics and given painkillers and other remedies. Yassen's mission was successful, but at the last moment, due to a clock being wrong, Yassen was betrayed and noticed the MI6 agents in town, and ran, but was chased by Ash, and Yassen knifed Ash in the gut, causing him to suffer for ever. One day, Blunt sent Ash and John Rider out to Malta, off the African coast, where a killer named Yassen Gregorovich was going to kill a criminal named Cuxco.

Ash became obsessed with MI6 and wanted to become more prominent, but he was never recognized by Alan Blunt, the director, nor Mrs. Ash was originally very active in the field but was later relegated to desk duty where, in his words, 'nobody noticed I existed.' He liked women, particularly Jack Starbright, John Rider's housekeeper, and he went out with her, but never dated her professionally.

Ash was presumably English, although he is mentioned as looking very Middle Eastern, and he was presumably born in London, given that he went to work for MI6 with his close friends Ian and John Rider, both brothers (John later became Alex Rider's father, Ian was his uncle).

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