Adventurer, spy, smuggler, racketeer and all-round bad girl - that's Modesty Blaise! The cult creation of best-selling author Peter O'Donnell returns in this fantastic collection of rare and classic newspaper strips from the Evening Standard, the first volume in a new Modesty Blaise library!

With her trusted right-hand man Willie Garvin and the underworld resources of 'The Network' on tap, Modesty takes on the skilled killers of La Machine and battles to destroy a coven of blackmailers, proving once and for all that the female of the species is deadlier than the male.

Contents

• La Machine from 1963
• The Long Lever from 1963/64
• The Gabriel Set-Up from 1964
• In the Beginning from 1966

All artwork by Jim Holdaway

Includes article by Mike Paterson on the Modesty Blaise phenomenon and article by Peter O'Donnell on the real Modesty Blaise.