Status
Available
Call number
Series
Genres
Publication
Helsingissä : Otava, 1997.
Description
While rescuing Tarrant of British Intelligence from the criminal tycoon, Colonel Jim, Modesty and Willie Garvin meet their match in Mrs McTurk, the lady assassin, and Mr Sexton, the world's greatest exponent of unarmed combat. To escape, Modesty must defeat the invincible Mr Sexton in a final confrontation deep underground in the Lancieux caves. Can she survive?
User reviews
LibraryThing member guybrarian
Okay, I confess, I have the hots for Modesty Blaise. One doesn’t have to be a fan of Bond or given to retro-superspy kitsch (among the best is ’Forrest DeVoe Jr’s’ Into the Volcano, with its proto-jetski chases and giant hardboiled-human slicer), to become similarly smitten. Blaise is more
Show More
hip, fun, sexy and mysterious than Bond, and has a more generous, upbeat worldview. With her astonishing gifts of mind and body control, she doesn’t need an armory of gadgets, but delights in using a panoply of exotic hand-held weapons, as does her cockney sidekick Willie Garvin, master of the throwing knife a great sardonic tomcat. In this, her seventh title, she appears to have met her match in Mr. Sexton, the world’s greatest martial artist, but inspiration strikes as she preps for their death match in a cave in the Pyrenees. Modesty strips down and applies grease to every inch of her lovely body, resulting in one of the most memorable fight sequences ever. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1973
Physical description
251 p.; 19 cm
ISBN
9511149571 / 9789511149576
Other editions
The Silver Mistress by Peter O'Donnell (Paperback)