In the beginning there is Modesty. Cooler than the pretentious James Bond and with one of the cutest sidekicks in fiction, the drop-dead gorgeous Willie Garvin.
Modesty, unlike all the male heroes of the genre, has nothing to prove. The Bonds and assorted other action heroes all seem to be struggling incessantly to show us how macho they are. Modesty simply... is. An orphan from God knows where, she grew up in a refugee camp and wandered all across the Middle East as a child, picking up super-developed survival skills on the way. By her late teens she was running an international crime syndicate, The Network (no drugs and prostitution) and we meet her in the first book, 'Modesty Blaise', when she and Willie have retired, still only in their early thirties, if that, with too much time on their hands and a constant thirst for adventure. Not to mention all those finely-honed fighting skills to test out. Modesty and Willie charge around the world, drawn in reluctantly to a series of caper/adventures withimprobably nasty villains and ruthless opponents. All plotted to perfection...

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