- 1980s, Fiction, Intelligence service, Women spies
In this classic return we see Modesty both at her most feminine and at her toughest. Trapped in an earthquake disaster with a dying man, she makes a promise that is to lead her and her faithful friend Willie Garvin into the most perilous crisis of their careers.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Peter O'Donnell
- First published
- March 1987
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Rowohlt, Tom Doherty Associates, Random House Value Publishing
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780285636439
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- 1980s
- Fiction
- Intelligence service
- Women spies
- Modesty Blaise (Fictitious character)
- Blaise, Modesty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Women spies -- Fiction.
- Fiction, thrillers, espionage
- Blaise, modesty (fictitious character), fiction
- Great britain, fiction
- Blaise, Modesty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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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