The Killing Game

Modesty Blaise Story Strips #30

by Peter O'Donnell

Wedding bells are sounding for Guido the Jinx, but as always he’s in over his head and Modesty and Willie must fight to save him, and the world, from bio-terrorists in‘The Last Aristocrat’. Modesty and Willie are forced to become quarry in a big game hunt, playing for keeps in ‘The Killing Game’. In their final tale ‘The Zombie’ the pair must rescue an old Network friend from a super-computer building cult.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

112 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2017

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.

http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html
is an excellent resource on this author.

To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.

In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.

Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of bringing them all out in large-format softcover, with 2-3 stories in each books. These are called "graphic novels" in the Goodreads title.

Meanwhile, during those 38 years, O'Donnell also wrote 13 books about Modesty Blaise: 11 novels and 2 short story/novella collections. These stories are not related to the strip stories; they are not novelizations of strip stories. They are entirely new, though the characters and "lives" are the same. These have been labeled "series #0".

There is a large article on Peter O'Donnell on Wikipedia, with a complete bibliography.

Reviews

[Richard Clay · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent ending to an astonishing achievement in popular culture. 'The Zombie' and 'The last Aristocrat' may not be the very best of Modesty but they're very very good. Similarly, 'The Killing Game' is perhaps the first time O'Donnell can be seen to be going over old ground but - for heavens' sake - after thirty seven years or so, that's hardly a crime. I assume that this, though the strips it contains came out a few years later, is intended to be read before the short story collection 'Cobra Trap.'

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bioterrorism bidding foiled in Corfu, the most dangerous game in New Guinea, circus and zombies in England. A great way for the Modesty comics to end. A great last panel. A great swan song. The only bad thing is that this is the last one.

10/10

[Tom the Guvnor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big fan of Ms. Blaise