Modesty Blaise Books in Order

Fanatical Dr Thaddeus Pilgrim abducts Willie Garvin and brainwashes him into believing that Modesty has been murdered by a woman who looks exactly like her. Drawn to a monastery on a Greek island, Modesty must face the possibility that the man who knows her best has been programmed to kill her on sight.

An unknown terrorist group called the Watchmen is staging spectacular attacks around the world, from embassy massacres to dam explosions. When Modesty accidentally blows a CIA friend's cover inside the organisation, she and Willie are pulled into a plot that stretches from San Francisco Bay to Madeira and targets several world leaders.

When a dying man gasps out a cryptic trail of clues, Modesty promises to save his wife and recover an object of immense value known only as the Talisman. The search leads her and Willie from Tangier to Paris and the High Atlas Mountains, where the elusive crime lord El Mico waits in his stronghold of Xanadu.

While sailing alone between Australia and New Zealand, Modesty rescues a world renowned painter who vanished months earlier in Europe. His murder sends her and Willie to Dragon's Claw Island, a private kingdom ruled by an art obsessed madman and a fanatical gunfighter preacher with a grudge.

Discovering that a close friend believed lost at sea may still be alive, Modesty uncovers Limbo, a secret plantation in the Guatemalan jungle where famous captives are worked as slaves. To free them, she allows herself to be taken prisoner and must spark a revolt before their owners decide to wipe the slate clean.

Sir Gerald Tarrant is kidnapped on a narrow French mountain road by criminals disguised as nuns, then presumed dead when his car plunges into a gorge. Only Modesty believes he is alive, and a reckless rescue mission leads her and Willie into the clutches of Mr Sexton, an egomaniac who claims to be the world's greatest unarmed fighter.

Russian analyst Mischa Novikov discovers fabulous wealth hidden in a remote African valley, then dies under torture before revealing the secret. When Modesty rescues idealistic doctor Giles Pennyfeather, she is pulled into a lethal struggle with sadistic tycoon Brunel and his ambitious lieutenant to unlock the legend of the Impossible Virgin.

Blind Canadian tourist Dinah Pilgrim survives a beach ambush only because Willie Garvin intervenes, drawing Modesty into a new clash with crime lord Gabriel and the brutal Simon Delicata. The trail runs from Panama to the Sahara, ending in duels and a siege in an abandoned desert fort.

An eccentric seer known as Lucifer claims he can foresee death, and someone is using his gift to orchestrate a wave of terror. As Modesty and Willie dig into the cult around him, their own unnerving instincts are pushed to the limit in a case that toys with fate.

Modesty and Willie infiltrate the private army of Karz, a modern warlord training thousands of mercenaries in a hidden valley for an invasion of the Middle East. When Karz kidnaps a child dear to them, the mission becomes a desperate rescue against impossible odds.

After disbanding her criminal Network, Modesty Blaise is lured out of retirement when British intelligence asks her to stop a diamond heist by criminal mastermind Gabriel. To take the job she first must rescue Willie Garvin from execution, leading to a deadly chase across Europe and the Mediterranean.