"Modesty Blaise returns."
Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted January 19, 2013
Thriller Spy
A compilation of three short stories from the very
successful Peter O'Donnell. His Modesty Blaise character
started life as a comic strip. Modesty worked for a secret
organization as a troubleshooter/enforcer. The comic strip
was so successful that O'Donnell later wrote books and short
stories based around the character. In the first story "The Girl From the Future, we see Modesty
and her sidekick, Willie Garvin, meeting a famous science
fiction writer who believes in UFOs. He is convinced that
he is housing a lady from the future and he is helping her
return. Modesty and Willie will save the people conning him
from death since they had no idea that their hired help were
worse than expected. The second story "The Big Mole" takes place in a small
English village as Modesty and Willie circumvent the escape
of a traitor using a battle staged every year since the
English Civil War. In Lady in the Dark, Modesty and Willie must protect their
friend as she is called in to determine the position of a
long lost treasure. My only exposure to Peter O'Donnell's work was the books he
wrote as Madeline Brent. This chance to read some of the
Modesty Blaise stories was too good to pass up. It's not
the first graphic novel released of some of the Blaise
stories. I'd love to see the originals and be able to
follow the characters from their inception. My only quibble
with the release is the size of the book. It's too tall and
wide to read with it held in one hand.
SUMMARY
Stories from the classic newspaper strip Modesty Blaise are
collected here in the latest in Titan's deluxe library
series. This volume includes the classic stories The Girl
from the Future, The Big Mole and Lady in the Dark!
With story introductions that take the reader behind the
scenes of Modesty's world, this outstanding collection is
not to be missed.
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