Classic thriller series re-issued

You are a high-octane junkie. You can’t get enough of the super tough guys and gals who jet into hot-spots, pulp the baddies, and save the world. Get set to relive the rollicking adventures of Modesty Blaise, who is better than the best. Bond, who?

Much before Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, yummy), Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie, kickbutt), and Jason Bourne (Matt Damon, edgy), there was Peter O’Donnell’s iconic creation with jet black hair, lovely legs, and an unparalleled will to win.

Climb aboard as the uber cool Modesty and her sidekick Willie Garvin battle the vilest villains and come up trumps.

Like his stunning mentor, Garvin is a character: rough-hewn, but with a wicked way with the ladies.

Equally delightful is the ancillary cast: stiff-upper-lip spymeister Sir Gerald Tarrant, mild-mannered academic Stephen Collier, blind, beautiful Dinah, and a whole bunch of memorable others, in some of the most exciting take-you-out-of-yourself stories you will ever come across.

All thirteen in gorgeous covers; the last for the first time in paperback.

The Modesty Blaise series, by Peter O’Donnell, Penguin. Price: Rs. 250 per book. Out in bookstores the week of June 5.