Peter O'Donnell Books in Order

In the strip's closing run, Modesty and Willie help lovable rogue Guido the Jinx survive a wedding targeted by bio terrorists, become quarry in a grotesque big game hunt that treats humans as sport and rescue an old Network friend from a cult obsessed with supercomputers and control.

Here Modesty and Willie first try to save a young woman from a vengeful ex judge turned vigilante, then stumble into a skiing holiday that hides a Satanist cult with mob connections and finally join old allies to rescue a kidnapped girl from fanatics who use occult imagery as cover for crime.

Four final era stories see Modesty framed for murder, repaying an old debt in Fraser's Story, navigating an archaeological caper in Tribute to the Pharaoh and carrying out Special Orders that put her and Willie directly in the crosshairs of both criminals and nervous governments.

Collecting several mid 1990s storylines, The Killing Distance highlights the strip's later style, with Modesty and Willie navigating shifting alliances, long range assassination plots and operations where their usual close quarter skills must adapt to more modern, impersonal threats.

This later volume reprints a sequence of newspaper adventures built around a ruthless operator dubbed Ripper Jax and other hard edged villains. The stories lean into darker humour, global travel and the easy shorthand Modesty and Willie share after years of working together.

Moving into the 1990s strips, Modesty and Willie face a sadistic prankster whose jokes kill, accept a mysterious gift that drags them back into Network business and play a long game of chess with a mastermind who treats people as expendable pieces.

This art book showcases more than a hundred pieces of original Modesty Blaise artwork by Jim Holdaway, Enric Badia Romero and other strip artists. High quality reproductions, commentary and rare sketches offer a behind the scenes look at how the newspaper adventures were drawn.

This collection showcases Modesty's later collaborations with Maude Tiller and other recurring allies. From protecting a headstrong young woman caught in criminal crossfire to uncovering art thefts and rescuing fellow agent Maude, the stories blend mature character work with tight, inventive action.

Three linked tales follow Willie's irrepressible young admirer Fiona, a perilous solo trek Modesty makes through the Australian outback and a final nightmare in which she is held captive behind an iron mask while her enemies decide how to break her once and for all.

This volume spotlights three later newspaper stories the kidnapping of the French intelligence chief, a clash with a fanatical cult devoted to Kali and a caper where a woman impersonating Modesty throws both the authorities and the underworld into chaos.

Bringing together a run of late Modesty Blaise newspaper adventures, this collection centres on a contest dubbed the Million Dollar Game, where greed, elaborate traps and shifting alliances test Modesty and Willie in some of their most dangerous modern era missions.

In the title arc, Modesty infiltrates an international assassins guild that has targeted one of her allies. She and Willie then chase Russian agents who steal a beloved circus elephant and finally face extortionists threatening to expose secrets from Modesty's Network days unless she works for them.

Three globe trotting plots unfold as Modesty confronts a hijacker known as the Scarlet Maiden, investigates a sinister figure called the Moonman and helps an old soldier friend whose past explodes into the present in a case involving loyalty, stolen treasure and unfinished war stories.

Moving into the Neville Colvin era, this volume finds Modesty sifting through a deadly intelligence file nicknamed Pluto, tracking a female led hit squad whose glamour masks psychopathic violence and following Willie on a solo journey that proves trouble finds him even without his Princess.

Modesty and Willie race a ticking clock across desert sands to save an old friend and his daughter, find themselves playing castaways while sabotaging a Caribbean drug pipeline and go up against a coolly efficient assassination bureau that turns every move into a calculated risk.

Set in the late 1970s, this collection sends Modesty after Native American treasure in Yellowstone, pairs her with a wily con man in Idaho George and plunges her into the Cambodian jungle in The Golden Frog, where an old fighting master from her past calls in a dangerous favour.

These strips pit Modesty and Willie against a mysterious assassin called the Green Cobra, throw them into a twisted Adam and Eve themed commune and uncover a secret brotherhood using Modesty's own name as a banner for crime and manipulation.

This bumper volume sends Modesty stumbling from an innocent babysitting job into a mob war, playing Cupid while hunting a killer, surviving gladiatorial games arranged by a vengeful ex lover and finally trekking the Inca Trail to save kidnapped children and stop a budding revolution.

Three edgy tales see Modesty and Willie lured into an attempted Eastern European coup, tracking a ring of human traffickers preying on young women and infiltrating a drug syndicate that thinks its remote junkyard base makes it untouchable. Every plan quickly turns into a fight for survival.

Here Modesty investigates a modern Bluebeard who marries and murders wealthy women, teams with the FBI in New Orleans to unmask a killer nicknamed the Gallows Bird and goes up against criminals whose outward respectability hides ruthless kidnapping and extortion.

Named for a strip in which Modesty and Willie answer a mysterious distress call in the Scottish Highlands, this collection of 1970s adventures blends political intrigue, kidnap plots and eerie local legends with the strip's familiar mix of sharp banter and sudden violence.

Three stories see Willie playing guardian djinn to a deposed ruler's daughter, Modesty dealing with a jealous ambassador's child whose spite turns dangerous and the pair confronting a deranged earl who has turned his estate into a deadly medieval playground.

The title sequence follows Suki, a fragile seeming young drifter whose apparent innocence hides a gift for chaos. Modesty takes an interest in saving her, only to find herself and Willie pulled into a web of kidnappers, crooked businessmen and brutal enforcers.

Gathering three classic strips, this volume has Modesty ripping through her own organisation to uncover a spy, doing battle with homicidal Norsemen and crossing claws with a pride of schoolgirls turned feral criminals. Tight plotting and wry exchanges keep the tension high throughout.

After crossing a Hong Kong crime boss, Modesty is forced to choose between keeping her word and saving lives as the Vietnam War rages around her. The title story pushes her into jungle firefights, improvised rescues and a final reckoning with the vengeful Mister Sun.

In these three adventures, Modesty helps a young woman who insists she is from the future, tracks a traitor buried deep inside a security project and faces the return of the espionage group Salamander Four, whose new scheme leaves her quite literally a lady in the dark.

This late period collection brings together three newspaper stories in which Modesty and Willie protect a child courier, tangle with a suave operator known as Milord and finally act as irresistible live bait to draw out an underworld boss who thinks he can outplay them.

When a small plane crash leaves Modesty, Willie and friends stranded in the jungle, they stumble into the camp of brutal diamond thieves who worship an idol they call the Iron God. Cut off from help, they must improvise their way through a makeshift jungle war.

This final Modesty Blaise book gathers five stories spanning her life, from a young refugee leading her first crew to a seasoned adventurer working with British intelligence. The title tale offers a powerful farewell as Modesty and Willie choose one last, impossibly dangerous mission over fading quietly away.

Two complete 1960s capers feature Uncle Happy, a genial seeming gangster with lethal habits, and Bad Suki, a damaged young woman whose talent for trouble is almost unmatched. Modesty and Willie navigate crime families, double crosses and elaborate set ups where compassion can be as risky as violence.

When a private army begins drilling in the desert under the banner of Phoenix, Modesty suspects a plot far bigger than mercenary training. She and Willie infiltrate the warlords' hidden base, where experimental weapons and a ruthless command structure turn every misstep into a fight for survival.

Best known for its chilling title arc, this collection sees Modesty kidnapped by a vengeful criminal who plans to brainwash her into murdering Willie Garvin. As Willie refuses to believe she is dead, their separate investigations converge in a brutal test of loyalty and identity.

In the title story, Modesty and Willie are drawn to an isolated English estate where an unhinged earl has turned his land into a mock medieval playground for his former commando unit. Rigged jousts, lethal pranks and a very modern criminal scheme soon give them a new set of enemies.

Collecting three hard hitting storylines, this volume finds Modesty and Willie uncovering traitors inside British intelligence, derailing a violent coup attempt and confronting warlords who dream of carving out their own private state. The strips mix spying, siege warfare and Modesty's firm view of when mercy runs out.

Early strip adventures introduce Modesty's partnership with Willie and her uneasy dealings with Sir Gerald Tarrant. From intricate cons and rescues to first encounters with the diamond thief Gabriel, these stories lay the groundwork for the long running mix of capers, espionage and dry humour.

Mitji has grown up among an Aboriginal tribe in the Australian desert, white skinned and red haired yet utterly at home in their world. Cast out as an outsider, she saves dying settler Luke Bowman and becomes Meg, an English heiress who must survive new dangers, shifting loyalties and long sea voyages to claim her true identity.

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.

Sold as a slave in the remote kingdom of Shul, seventeen year old Jemimah Lawley survives two brutal years as Lalla before a perilous escape across the Hindu Kush. Back in England she finds another girl living as Jemimah at her ancestral home, forcing her to unravel impostors, buried secrets and the warning bound up in the name Stormswift.

Hannah MacLeod is content waiting tables in a small Montmartre bistro, hiding from a past she refuses to name. Rescuing a stranger from a street attack pulls her back to England and into a bitter struggle between powerful men, taking her across oceans and into the darker corners of the 1890s.

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.

Emma Delaney expects a secure future when she marries wealthy Jamaican planter Oliver Foy instead she finds herself trapped in a violent, loveless marriage. A desperate act sends her fleeing with loyal seaman Daniel Choong, beginning years of disguise, sea voyaging and danger as she lives one masquerade after another to stay alive.

When twenty year old Bridie Chance learns that her adored father was a highly successful criminal, her privileged life collapses overnight. Struggling to support her mother, sister and old nanny, she becomes entangled with new friends and hidden enemies, all circling around a secret tied to the ominous Capricorn Stone.

This collection gathers four mid 1960s newspaper strip adventures, including the title story, which sends Modesty and Willie into Tibet in search of a legendary jewel. High altitude treks, elaborate heists and a deadly manhunt on a deserted island show the strip's early blend of glamour and ruthlessness.

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.

Jani, a half Indian orphan raised on the fringes of a British regiment in northern India, is sent to an English orphanage after tragedy strikes. Years later, the search for the truth about her parents draws her into occult plots, political intrigue and the forbidding house known as Merlin's Keep.

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.

As a teenager, Chantal runs away from an English orphanage and joins a travelling circus, reinventing herself as a high wire performer. Meeting a half starved stranger who calls himself Martin pulls her back toward the secrets of her childhood and the dangerous estate called Wildings.

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.

Raised in a mission in China, orphan Lucy Waring suddenly finds herself caring for fifteen children and ends up in a grim jail, where a condemned man asks her a riddle about buried emeralds. Taken to England, she is drawn into a family feud, eerie sightings and a mystery that finally sends her back to war torn China.

Six fast moving short stories show Modesty and Willie tackling jobs that range from South American bandits and jewel thieves to industrial spies and Scottish gangsters. The pieces highlight different sides of their partnership, from Willie's wry narration to Modesty's cool improvisation under pressure.

Cadi Tregaron, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, is haunted by dreams of a house standing in water and a faceless man who waits there. Orphaned and taken into a wealthy family, she uncovers secrets that lead from the English coast to Venice and a dangerous inheritance.

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.