Modesty Blaise : Dragon's Claw

Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin are now cult names in the thriller genre with well over a million copies of the Modesty Blaise series sold worldwide. Penguin India is delighted to present these bestselling books, now collector's items, in its new series—Retro Revival.

Modesty and Willie's ninth caper starts off with Modesty a thousand miles from land, sailing her sloop alone across the Tasman Sea. There she meets Luke Fletcher as he clings to a sinking raft and struggles with the blanks in his memory.

Luke's partial amnesia set Modesty and Willie on a crime-busting trail deep into a maze of murder…up against Beauregard Browne, effeminate genius of crime, his county-set nymphomaniac lady Clarissa and the 'Hammer of the Lord', Reverend Uriah Crisp, ecclesiastical executioner with the colt commander and a quick draw…

‘‘ In a new adventure… and probably the best'''— Yorkshire Post '''At the top of the fantasy league…Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin provoke each other into ever greater feats of imaginative ingenuity as they do battle in London, Malta and on a Pacific islet, against as fiendish a band of baddies as a thriller writer ever dreamed up'''— Sunday Times