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Modesty Blaise Story Strips #10
Modesty Blaise 10: Cry Wolf
Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, her partner, are lured into a faked kidnapping plot - but when a real kidnapper strikes, all hell breaks loose in 'Cry Wolf'. Also including 'Take Me To Your Leader' and 'Highland Witch', this collection features an introduction by the band Sparks, and story introductions by Peter O'Donnell.
104 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2006
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Peter O'Donnell
373 books116 followersLibrarian 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.
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.
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May 8, 2017
More perfection.
“Take Me To Your Leader” involves an complex UFO-aliens hoax (all the fad in the mid ‘70s) in the Pacific Ocean foiled by our heroes. The Highland Witch refers to an ugly hag who tosses the niece of a rich dude she’s got captive over a Scottish waterfall, involving Modesty and her hilariously insulting fly fisherman fling in a haunting scam. “Cry Wolf” features wolves but refers more so to a spy-swap-capture espionage deal in Lapland, one of the rare instances of Tarrant trying (unsuccessfully of course) to get one over on our fearless duo. Idiot.
“Take Me To Your Leader” involves an complex UFO-aliens hoax (all the fad in the mid ‘70s) in the Pacific Ocean foiled by our heroes. The Highland Witch refers to an ugly hag who tosses the niece of a rich dude she’s got captive over a Scottish waterfall, involving Modesty and her hilariously insulting fly fisherman fling in a haunting scam. “Cry Wolf” features wolves but refers more so to a spy-swap-capture espionage deal in Lapland, one of the rare instances of Tarrant trying (unsuccessfully of course) to get one over on our fearless duo. Idiot.
October 11, 2018
'Take Me to Your Leader' would appear to be the place where Alan Moore came across the basic plot for 'Watchmen', though, being a very different writer to O'Donnell, he did very different things with it!
February 7, 2020
Thoroughly enjoyed these stories. Very much recommended
November 2, 2013
Fun assembly of mid-1970s Modesty strips, including a story inspired by the success of junk science paperback Chariots of the Gods. The sex and violence is very PG-rated, but really no worse than Steve Canyon in the 1940s. Imagine reading this every day in your newspaper.
July 13, 2023
What great fun! A collection of the wonderfully dated Modesty Blaise magazine comic strip, great adventures, a slick proto Lara Croft ass kicking mystery solving girl and her hunky rough diamond side kick.
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