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of the best in this series, This one brings Dr Giles Pennyfeather into the story line, A superb example of the Modesty Blaise novel, quirky characters, appalling situations, a little kink, and lots of combat, all to hand.
It's the kind of actionadventure novel that in fact would never make a good movie, because too much would be lost in the jump to the big screen.
Reading this is like going to a great restaurant that nobody knows about, or hugging a fantastic yarn store to your chest, your own delicious secret.


I only know about the series because a character in the pulp fiction movie was reading a book by this author on the toilet.
This books are hard to find and I was fortunate enough to find one on a trip abroad.
The book itself however lacks character emotions, I continue to find the Modesty Blaise books a delight to read, despite the horrible, trashy covers.
pluss. Read in Danish. This book was actually published by Doubleday inand not as the description states, Really fun stuff a bit grisly, with some highly problematic attitudes towards sex and gender, It was the sixties though, right Definitely a Modesty fan now, though, Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin are now cult names in the thriller genre with well over a million copies of the Modesty Blaise series sold worldwide.
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Their fifth caper is fast and furious and takes them to France and Rwanda, where Modesty and Willie have to fend off professional killers, maddened gorillas, savage warriors and the ferocious guardians of The Impossible Virgin C: Who wouldnt want to be Modesty Blaise As fast paced as ever and clearly a product of the cold war.
Features Africa Rwanda how forward thinking was that FCN: Modesty Blaise heroine par excellance, Mischa Novikov a Soviet defector with a secret, Doctor Pennyfeather, Willie Garvin sidekick, Adrian Chance one of the evil villains.
“"Well, good lord, a

body's only a body, and I'd hate you to get into any trouble just for doing in a rotten swine like that.
Public service, if you ask me, " Tears in his eyes, still wheezing a little, Willie croaked, "We could've shoved "im down the Tweeny.
You're lovely, Giles. I mean it, matey. Honest to God, you're lovely, " Impossibly well written and so tense, Yes to all! Set in Rwanda where a marvellously evil crook tortures a russian scientist for the situation of a gold mine which is situated between the legs of the impossible virgin.
A story in itself. Read with pleasure several times, While making an emergency stopover in Rwanda Modesty Blaise meets Giles Pennyfeather, a slightly dotty medical practitioner with an almost uncanny knack for healing his patients under the most dire of conditions.
During her time with Pennyfeather, Modesty serves as his nurse and later much more and they soon find themselves accosted by two vicious thugs, Adrian Chance and Jacko Muktar, who seek to shake down the doctor for any information he may have gleaned from Novikov, a Soviet defector with a lucrative secret.
The problem is Novikov died after escaping grueling torture at the hands of Chance, and Pennyfeather may have inadvertantly overheard him babble the one bit of information vital to the plans of the thugs' master, a diminutive and icily evil international criminal named Brunel.
Of course Modesty kicks Chance and Jacko's asses like a motherfucker, humilitaing them mercilessly, but lets them live after stranding them miles from civilization, a huge error in judgement that comes back to kick her ass along with the collective ass of Pennyfeather and her righthand man, Willie Garvin in a way that makes most of her previous brushes with death or worse pale by comparison.
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That's just the setup for a majorly harrowing adventure, a story that puts both Modesty and Willie to some serious tests of all of their many skills, and even if you're a fan of the series and know for a fact that Willie is the colead in every book in this series, there's a sequence that will have you on the edge of your seat and believing along with Modesty that Willie has been taken out of the picture once and for all I mean, what else could you possibly think if you witnessed your best friend engage in savage combat, while strapped to a steel chair no less, and escaping from a straight jacket as he gets thrown out of a plane flying at three thousand feet, sans parachute I won't say anymore, but Willie's missing for about the next third of the book, and when he shows up in the nick of time, his explanation of how he cheated death is so ludicrous and overthetop that you have believe every hilarious word of Willie's account.


And speaking of hilarity, there's a great bit in which Modesty and Willie decide to steal some vital stolen documents from Brunel because their sale would lead to the inevitable sacking of their pal Sir Gerald Tarrant from his position in the secret service, and they just can't let that happen plus Modesty wants to give the papers to Sir Gerald as a surprise birthday present.
After days of intense scrutiny of the defenses in and around Brunel's London home our heroes determine there's absolutely no way to break in without tripping all manner of alrams and getting shot in the process at the very least, even given their world class talents, so they come up with a plan both brilliant in its simplicity and downright sidesplitting in its audacity.
I won't tell you how they pull it off, but it's so simple that you'd never think of it, and when it happens you'll smack yourself in the head for not thinking of something so obvious.


Simply put, the heroes are in top form, the villains are among the most heinous human vermin ever to disgrace the prose page, and the supporting characters, Pennyfeather and the cruelly abused albino Lisa, are worthy of books in and of themselves.
And, no, I'm not going to tell you what the title refers to, RECOMMENDED. A spot of bother for Willie Garvin when he gets chucked out of an airborne Dakota at three thousand feet.
Bleedin' 'ell, Princess, some people do take liberties, don't they

There's little here to cause the reader to doubt the reviewer who said 'these books are the finest escapist thrillers ever written': the silverhaired Adrian Chance is a villain almost as mesmerizingly creepy as 'A Taste for Death's Simon Delicata and, in a flashback to his days at the orphanage, Willie's way of making sure he wins at conkers is laughoutloud funny.


Note that this is the first 'Modesty Blaise' set in central Africa and, while the portrayal of black people would not have been considered racist at the time some of them are clearly shown to be good and not just as servants, some descriptions of them would not be acceptable in a novel published today.
My first time reading something like this, Silly but fun and some bits were really tense and exciting, Now, where's the erotic Modesty amp Willie fan fic The first half of the book was excellent, I really enjoyed the way Modesty was on the top of her game and proved that she really is a great kickass heroine.
Unfortunately, we are then back to the authors standby of It all goes wrong followed by the Abuse, then the Escape.
I shouldnt really complain, as I knew it was coming, but I do wish he could come up with a different scenario for a change.


Having had my little moan, I should say this is a great read and I nearly gave itstars.

I started reading the Modesty Blaise thriller / adventure series inwhen I found most of the books at a local Rotary Club Book sale and thought they might be worth trying.
Think of James Bond and other spy series and you've got Modesty Blaise, except in this case the hero is a fascinating, largerthenlife woman.
In an earlier life, Modesty ran one of the most successful crime syndicates in the world, along with her right hand man, Willie Garvin, but by the time the series starts, she has closed the syndicate down and is living a retired life in England, sometimes helping the head of a UK secret service department, Sir Geoffrey Tarrant, deal with 'malcontents' around the world.
They are always fantastical adventures but also entertaining, page turners,

In thisth book, Modesty is flying down to South Africa for business when she makes a stopover in Central Africa and ends up helping a somewhat hapless doctor, Giles Pennyfeather, work with the natives.
Just before she arrived, a man a Russian straggled into the camp, obviously having been tortured, and he died before Pennyfeather could save him.
Two men show up to force Pennyfeather to disclose what the Russian Novikov told him, Modesty deals with them quite satisfactorily and escapes with Pennyfeather back to London, where he begins to live with her.


Ultimately, this story will result in a major confrontation with Monsieur Brunel, a sociopath if I've ever seen one, who wants the information Novikov possessed basically a location to a gold field somewhere in Africa.
It will involve Willie, Pennyfeather and Modesty against Brunel, his albino 'girlfriend' / slave, and Brunel's gang of 'evil' henchman.
There is beaucoup action, a journey from London back to Africa, a grievous tragedy in Modesty's life, etc.
It's all larger than life, but it doesn't matter, Modesty is a wonderful character and Willie an excellent partner in crime in the good sense, of course.
The story is wellwritten, moves along nicely and ends, as always, quite satisfactorily, I still havestories in the series to enjoy and look forward to getting to them,.I read the Swedish hardcover edition, Modesty Blaise stories are my very favorite escapist reading, She would surely kick James Bond's ass, I've been enjoying this series quite a bit, I've reached the point where I hadn't read any of the books past number four, Still haven't gotten number two yet, I'll have finished the series before the end of the year, and looking forward to reading some of the "graphic novel" books.

As always, the adventure is full of improbable but not impossible events as Willie and Modesty take on a new set of bad guys.
All of the books, but this one especially, support the Chekov axiom that a gun shown in the second act must be fired in the third act.
OK, it's quarter staffs this time, but the axiom holds, Ive been ploughing through the Modesty Blaise books and enjoying them all to some extent, Some of them are incredible the whole way through, some of them are a bit bumpier, This one is a little more painfully dated, and I dont love Giles Pennyfeather all that much, but it was still an enjoyable read.
"Atomic Blond" is now described as the 'first female James Bond, ' Baloney, Modesty Blaise had that title years ago, And even that is baloney because it would be much more accurate to describe James Bond as the "male Modesty Blaise" or better yet, "a pale imitation of Modesty Blaise.
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Modesty Blaise is, . . well, selfactualized. She is in total control of herself, physically and mentally, She is always classy, elegant, composed without ever being arrogant or condescending, She has the normal attributes of an action hero: fighting ability, skill with weapons, money, fatally attractive.
But several things put the Blaise novels above the pack, Morals, as in an unwillingness to kill unless forced to and compassion for the weak, She has a sidekick, Willy, a very strong knifethrowing fatally attractive manwho she never has sex with.
Modesty has a degree of selfcomposure, a sort of secular spirituality, that is well described, She can control her body like a yogi with mad MMA skills,

Modesty and Willy travel the world as unofficial agents for British counterespionage stopping various dastardly plots.
O'Donnell makes you worry for her as he constructs horrendously lifethreatening situations and then has her plausibly overcome them.


Don't confuse these wellwritten stories with the horrible movie from the's, .