Modesty Blaise : Taste for Death, A

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.

In their fourth adventure, a blitzkrieg of action sweeps Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin from the underworld of Panama to the hot sands of the Sahara as they tangle with enemies old and new…

Gabriel

who needs Dinah, beautiful but blind, to trace the treasure of Domitian Mus, Tribune of Rome…

Wenczel

Hungarian master swordsman with whom Modesty must fence for her life

Delicata

the grotesque giant with an Oxbridge accent and a taste for Housman and death—Garvin's in particular.

A stunning book with one of the best villains ever created in Simon Delicata, A Taste for Death is Peter O'Donnell at his very best.

‘‘ These books are the finest escapist thrillers ever written'''— The Times '''The continuing renaissance of the immortal heroine: thrilling, humorous and timeless adventures, the Modesty Blaise series are seminal British crime novels'''— Crime Time '''Before Buffy, before Charlie'''s Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there was Modesty Blaise. For almost forty years, Peter O'''Donnell'''s iconic heroine drop-kicked her way through a swath of villains and into a unique place in popular culture'''— Observer