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The Professor
The Professor rated it 9 years ago
“I’d never bloody lived at all till she came along and changed everything.” Pure pulp deliciousness. This is the novel John Travolta reads on the toilet when Bruce Willis finds and shoots him in “Pulp Fiction”, a Hollywood nod to a character born in those three panel strips in the Standard I could n...
Steph's Books
Steph's Books rated it 9 years ago
It's a least thirty years since I read any type of comic strip fiction, it took me a while to settle back into it but once I did it was great fun. I had never heard of the Modesty Blaise books even though they were published over a period of around forty years. They did feel a little dated with the ...
Illuminati
Illuminati rated it 11 years ago
Modesty Blaise: Green Cobra by Titan Publishers collects three stories: Green cobra, Eve and Adam and Brethren of Blaise, which are story numbers 42,43 and 44 respectively of the total of 92 stories of Modesty. Modesty Blaise strip has had several artists over the course of its decades, the most fam...
Illuminati
Illuminati rated it 11 years ago
Modesty Blaise: The Girl in the Iron Mask by Titan Publishers collects three stories: Fiona, Walkabout and the titular The girl in the Iron mask , which are story numbers 70,71,72 respectively of the total of 92 stories of Modesty.In Fiona, Modesty goes to a Bangladeshi jungle to visit a former Netw...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: winter-20122013, play-dramatisation, published-1967, adventure, treasure Recommended for: BBC radio listeners Read from December 16 to 21, 2012 Modesty takes on public school villain Simon Delicata in a deadly Sahara showdown. blurb: She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, ver...
Illuminati
Illuminati rated it 12 years ago
Modesty Blaise....My favorite heroine ever.Modesty has nothing to do with her.
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
I remember reading this years ago and a chance discovery of a new copy in Waterstones for dirt cheap made me buy it and read it again. Modesty Blaise is one of the first female kick-ass heros in English fiction. She started off as a cartoon character in a regular strip and this is written by the s...
carey
carey rated it 12 years ago
ludicrous but fun
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
Modesty takes on public school villain Simon Delicata in a deadly Sahara showdown. blurb: She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in martial arts and unusual weapons, th...
Here i'm
Here i'm rated it 12 years ago
Oil has been recently found in a small country near Iraq which goes by the name of Malaurak. The sheik of Malaurak has granted the British govt. Concession on the oil in return for ten million pounds worth of diamonds. Sir Gerrad Tarrant of British Intelligence is concerned about the security of th...
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