- 1980s, Fiction, Intelligence service, Women spies
There have been few other female action heroines like Modesty Blaise—a tough orphan who became the leader of the Network, a crime syndicate specializing in art theft and industrial espionage.
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- Author
- Peter O'Donnell
- First published
- June 1996
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft, Mysterious Press, Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781459643611
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- 1980s
- Fiction
- Intelligence service
- Women spies
- Fiction, thrillers, espionage
- Blaise, modesty (fictitious character), fiction
- Great britain, fiction
- Blaise, Modesty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Women spies -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Mystery & Detective - General
- Adventure / thriller
Peter O'Donnell was born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, UK. He was interested in writing as a child, and began writing professionally at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the Royal Signals Corps, and was stationed in Persia, Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, Italy, and Greece. After the war, he worked as a comic strip writer, and scripted the Daily Express adaptation of the James Bond novel Dr. No. He was most famous for inventing the character Modesty Blaise, an undercover agent who first appeared in comic strips in 1963. In 1965, he published his first novel, Modesty Blaise, which was based on the screenplay he had written for the motion picture of the same name. He al
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