In the first of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must foil a multi million pound diamond heist
Peter O'Donnell created Modesty Blaise as a strip cartoon that was syndicated in more than 42 countries. The strip led to a series of novels about Modesty and her faithful lieutenant, Willie Garvin.
In the beginning there was Modesty. Cooler than the pretentious
James Bond, tougher than the brain-dead Mike Hammer -- Lauren
Henderson, author of Dead White Female
These books are the finest escapist thrillers ever written * The
Times *
Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel
there was Modesty Blaise. For almost 40 years, Peter O'Donnell's
iconic heroine drop-kicked her way through a swath of villains and
into a unique place in popular culture * Observer *
One of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with
that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson -- Kingsley Amis
O'Donnell is one of those rare popular writers, like Josephine Tey
or P.G. Wodehouse, who inspire not just fandom but love * New York
Times Book Review *
Modesty Blaise was the comic-strip criminal genius, turned
occasional secret service operative, who managed to combine
timeless beauty and elegance with the ability to break every bone
in your body... there's never been a better time to become
acquainted * The Crack *
The continuing renaissance of the immortal heroine: thrilling,
humorous and timeless adventures, the Modesty Blaise series are
seminal British crime novels * Crime Time *
The stories of Modesty are better than James Bond and funnier *
Tribune *
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