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11 books

Published 1965 to 1985

Status: Likely complete

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Book 1 by Peter O'Donnell • Published 1965

After disbanding her criminal Network, Modesty Blaise is lured out of retirement when British intelligence asks her to stop a diamond heist by criminal mastermind Gabriel. To take the job she first must rescue Willie...

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Book 1:Modesty Blaise
Peter O'Donnell • 1965
After disbanding her criminal Network, Modesty Blaise is lured out of retirement when British intelligence asks her to stop a diamond heist by criminal mastermind Gabriel. To take the job she first must rescue Willie...
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Book 2:Sabre-Tooth
Peter O'Donnell • 1966
Modesty and Willie infiltrate the private army of Karz, a modern warlord training thousands of mercenaries in a hidden valley for an invasion of the Middle East. When Karz kidnaps a child dear to them, the mission bec...
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Book 3:I, Lucifer
Peter O'Donnell • 1967
An eccentric seer known as Lucifer claims he can foresee death, and someone is using his gift to orchestrate a wave of terror. As Modesty and Willie dig into the cult around him, their own unnerving instincts are push...
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Book 4:A Taste for Death
Peter O'Donnell • 1969
Blind Canadian tourist Dinah Pilgrim survives a beach ambush only because Willie Garvin intervenes, drawing Modesty into a new clash with crime lord Gabriel and the brutal Simon Delicata. The trail runs from Panama to...
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Book 5:The Impossible Virgin
Peter O'Donnell • 1971
Russian analyst Mischa Novikov discovers fabulous wealth hidden in a remote African valley, then dies under torture before revealing the secret. When Modesty rescues idealistic doctor Giles Pennyfeather, she is pulled...
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Book 6:The Silver Mistress
Peter O'Donnell • 1973
Sir Gerald Tarrant is kidnapped on a narrow French mountain road by criminals disguised as nuns, then presumed dead when his car plunges into a gorge. Only Modesty believes he is alive, and a reckless rescue mission l...
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Book 7:Last Day in Limbo
Peter O'Donnell • 1977
Discovering that a close friend believed lost at sea may still be alive, Modesty uncovers Limbo, a secret plantation in the Guatemalan jungle where famous captives are worked as slaves. To free them, she allows hersel...
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Book 8:Dragon's Claw
Peter O'Donnell • 1978
While sailing alone between Australia and New Zealand, Modesty rescues a world renowned painter who vanished months earlier in Europe. His murder sends her and Willie to Dragon's Claw Island, a private kingdom ruled b...
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Book 9:The Xanadu Talisman
Peter O'Donnell • 1981
When a dying man gasps out a cryptic trail of clues, Modesty promises to save his wife and recover an object of immense value known only as the Talisman. The search leads her and Willie from Tangier to Paris and the H...
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Book 10:The Night of Morningstar
Peter O'Donnell • 1982
An unknown terrorist group called the Watchmen is staging spectacular attacks around the world, from embassy massacres to dam explosions. When Modesty accidentally blows a CIA friend's cover inside the organisation, s...
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Book 11:Dead Man's Handle
Peter O'Donnell • 1985
Fanatical Dr Thaddeus Pilgrim abducts Willie Garvin and brainwashes him into believing that Modesty has been murdered by a woman who looks exactly like her. Drawn to a monastery on a Greek island, Modesty must face th...
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