everythingsecondhand:Modesty Blaise, by Peter O’Donnell. First edition. (Souvenir Press, 1965)
everythingsecondhand:Modesty Blaise, by Peter O’Donnell. First edition. (Souvenir Press, 1965). From eBay.A twelve-year-old girl tramping across war-ravaged Europe, through refugee camps, across the Middle East knowing hunger, rape, despair - this was the making of Modesty Blaise. She wanted the security of money and got it. In every worth-while place she organised The Network, a crime organisation, efficient, deadly. She took a degenerate Willie Garvin from the gutter and turned him into her right-hand aide - a man as deadly and professional as herself.They made their money and retired. But where was the excitement in pretty clothes, jewels or running a pub on the Thames? Now on the right side of the law for once they pit themselves against a vicious schemer who played for very high stakes ruthlessly. Their story is one of tension and excitement. We see the blazing gun, feel the thud of steel against flesh and sicken at the paralysing Karate blow. This is the first of what every reader will want to be a very long series. -- source link