As dangerous as she is desirable, Modesty Blaise — former criminal mastermind, now an international adventuress — is a classic newspaper strip icon! In this eleventh collection of her adventures with long-time companion Willie Garvin, Modesty stumbles from a babysitting job into a mob war; faces some robbin' hoods; enters the gladiator arena; saves three children... and stops a revolution!

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 Enric Badia Romero. Expertly drawn and highly detailed, Modesty Blaise adventures are a nostalgic trip into the characters past and world. This volume contains an interview with creator Peter O’Donnell, new story introductions by O’Donnell, rare and previously unseen artwork, a story checklist and three bonus stories The Reluctant Chaperon, The Greenwood Maid and Those About to Die.

On the trail of danger expect action and excitement featuring Modesty Blaise, a beautiful but deadly secret agent with a sharp fashion sense to match, now in four more exciting adventures! In The Inca Trail Modesty and Willie must save two children while stopping a revolution. From one ironic calamity to another Modesty takes a babysitting job only to get involved in a mob war in The Reluctant Chaperon and then shoots for the heart in The Greenwood Maid. Finally, in Those About to Die betrayal for Modesty and Willie puts them both in a gladiatorial arena where they must fight for their lives or ultimately face certain death. More classic adventures in 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. Enric Badia Romero is a Spanish comic strip artist who is notable for not only completing the Modesty Blaise story The War-Lords of Phoenix after Jim Holdaway’s death but also carrying on as the strip’s artist until its end. Romero has worked for 2000 AD and is creator and artist on Axa. Romero’s work contributed to the legacy that is Modesty Blaise, a 1960s cultural and female icon that still inspires today.

“The strip’s longevity testifies to the enduring charm of Peter O’Donnell’s invention.” – Evening Standard

“Brilliant escapist thrillers which have brought one of Briatin’s greatest heroines to a new audience.”
– Matt Adams

“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 11 in the series · Collects The Reluctant Chaperon, The Greenwood Maid, Those About to Die, The Inca Trail.