Last Day in Limbo

by Peter O'Donnell

Paperback, 1977

Status

Available

Call number

823

Series

Modesty Blaise (8)

Genres

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

pan books Ltd (1977), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 235 pages

Description

In the jungles of South America lies Limbo, presided over by the Mistress of Limbo, where the men and women enslaved in Limbo have no hope of escape or rescue. Only Danny Chavasse nurses any hope for outside he has a friend who can save him, Modesty Blaise. Modesty, herself, has been chosen to be a slave of Limbo where the Mistress of Limbo has commanded a bizarre sacrifice to the old gods, the death of Modesty Blaise. To destroy Limbo Modesty must first become its captive but the loyal Willie Garvin is alongside her when the battle begins, the battle for survival on the Last Day in Limbo.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

I love this story. It's hard to review because I know it so well - I was anticipating a lot of the good bits, like Steve's puzzlement about the transmitter and Maude's attitude in the jungle. We get to see a couple glimpses of Network life, too. And some lovely action, in several settings. John

Dall, Stephen and Dinah Collier, Lucifer, Tarrant, Maude, and one glimpse of Fraser being Fraser. Modesty darn near out of her depth. There are a lot of lovely scenes in this book. I was thinking that it would be a bad one to start with as an intro to Modesty - there are a lot of references and in-jokes. On the other hand, you would get an interesting overview of Modesty, with plenty of action and a good stand-alone story to hook you... It's definitely not my intro to Modesty, but it may be my favorite of the stories. It's been nagging at me for a while now, with scenes popping up on my head until I had to read it again. Now the question is, are the rest of the Modesty stories referenced in here going to demand to be read, or can I go on to other things?

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