Keyser Soze - Gaiuse Strome similarities? (Not an outspoken spoiler, but a hint)

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2005)

I'm not sure this is a spoiler, but doesn't Keyser Soze seem a bit like Gaiuse Strome in Alistair MacLean's "Caravan to Vaccares" (the book, I don't know if it has been filmed)? In that he is this mysterious criminal mastermind you never really get to see, not even those who work for him have met him, but still they are afraid of him? And (the spoiler bit:) that in the end you find out that he is one of the characters in the story, but not the one you might have thought? Also, the names have some kind of the same ring to them. Not that there are any other similarities between that book and this film, just this same "invisible" menacing mastermind. For me, I kind of started trying to figure out which one of them it was, because of the name similarity, or perhaps because of the similarity in concept of an invisible criminal mastermind who becomes even more threatening because he is never seen. I wonder if the similarity in names and concept was some kind of hint for us to look for Keyser among the on-screen characters, or just a coincidence? Just a thought. /W