As dangerous as she is desirable, Modesty Blaise — former criminal mastermind, now an international adventuress — is a classic newspaper strip icon! In this fourth volume, Modesty battles to repay a debt she owes to a mystic, stops a gadget-using gang, faces down an entire town of villains, and becomes prey for a deadly hunt! This book also includes rare interviews, exclusive story introductions and masses of rare and previously unseen artwork!

Modesty Blaise, cult creation of best-selling author Peter O’Donnell, is back! The adventures of this all-round bad girl and spy are now collected in a luscious Collectors’ Edition paperback library! Thrown into searing hotbeds of intrigue, and up against impossible odds, Modesty Blaise proves once and for all that the female of the species is deadlier than the male. With her trusted right-hand man, Willie Garvin, and the underworld resources of ‘The Network’ on tap, no job is too big, no threat too great!

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She’s back in a Blaise of glory! From the pages of British newspaper The Evening Standard comes the global phenomenon and cult icon that is Modesty Blaise! Peter O’Donnell’s serialised comic strip featuring everyone’s favourite high-kicking, seductive super spy Modesty Blaise are reprinted here in new Collectors’ Library volumes. These classic stories are brought to the comic strip page by the highly talented writer/creator O’Donnell with illustrations by the equally talented artist Jim Holdaway. Expertly drawn and highly detailed, Modesty Blaise adventures are a nostalgic trip into the characters past and world. This volume contains a feature on the romance novels by writer ‘Madeleine Brent’, the third part interview with creator Peter O’Donnell, previously unseen artwork, new story introductions by O’Donnell, a story checklist and bonus stories The Magnified Man, The Jericho Caper and The Killing Ground.

The beautiful and deadly Modesty Blaise returns for another helping of ‘60s chic thrills and shadowed undercover espionage. In The Black Pearl Modesty must journey through the cold, harsh plains of Tibet to repay a debt to an ancient mystic who once saved her life by finding the mysterious Black Pearl. But a journey is never easy and Modesty faces challenges along the way including marauding bandits, the might of the Himalayas and the power of Red China. Challenges are never easy but neither is Modesty Blaise! Together with stories The Magnified Man, The Jericho Caper and The Killing Ground this is another collection of exciting, action-packed adventures with a woman you don’t want to mess with!

Writer Peter O’Donnell is best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise but he was also a historical romance novelist with a total of nine novels credited under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. Artist Jim Holdaway’s career began in advertising and but he then moved into freelance work drawing for Captain Vigour, The Football Comic, Steve Samson, Dick Hercules, Reveille, Tit-Bits, Comic Cuts, Junior Express and then Romeo Brown where he met Peter O’Donnell. Although since his death in 1970, Holdaway’s most famous work will always be Modesty Blaise, a 1960s cultural and female icon that still inspires today.

“Modesty is a distinctive type, a fantasy femme – sometimes captured in Jane-like semi-nudity or in striking fighting poses – with a heart and a will of her own. We’re looking forward to the rest of the series.” – Kim Newman

“The blueprint for the ass-kicking femme.” – The Guardian

“It’s astonishing how much detail and dynamism are packed into those three-panel gunshots of style that conjure a sleek, shadowed world of intrigue and glamour.” – SFX Magazine

Classics · Modesty Blaise
Volume 4 in the series · Collects ?The Black Pearl?, ?The Magnified Man? and ?The Jericho Caper?,& ?The Killing Ground?