In her first adventure for British Intelligence Modesty Blaise with her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, must foil a multi - million pound diamond heist. They travel from London to the South of France, across the Mediterranean to Cairo before battling, against impossible odds, a private army of professional killers.
Peter O'Donnell started as a professional writer in 1937, he created the character of Modesty Blaise for a strip cartoon in 1963 and the series was eventually syndicated in over 42 countries and produced 13 novels.
