Modesty Blaise is often described as a female James Bond, although this comparison is not totally accurate - she is more like Leslie Charteris' Saint, in that she is not a secret agent, she is a retired criminal who occasionally helps out the British secret service when her special talents are called for.Īs I have already said - I love these books. Over the next few decades Mr O'Donnell went on to write a total of eleven Modesty Blaise novels and two collections of short stories. The book was brilliant, the film completely dreadful. Its popularity led to the making of a film, and Peter O'Donnell was invited to write a novel to tie in with the movie.
Modesty Blaise was created by author Peter O'Donnell and artist Jim Holdaway, and started as a comic strip in London's Evening Standard, way back in 1963. I love heist movies like Ocean's 11/12/13, and one of my favourite TV shows is BBC's Hustle, so this book was always going to have huge appeal for me, but above everything else the synopsis reminded me of my all-time favourite series of books, a series featuring a female main character called Modesty Blaise. Heist Society was released in the US at the beginning of February and isn't officially published in the UK yet, although you can get your hands on a copy through .uk as I did - I just couldn't resist as the synopsis hooked me from the moment I first read it. This is the third book that I have reviewed this month where the main character is a teenage girl and this book is up there with my other favourite books of the year so far. How about that for a mindblowingly exciting synopsis? However, yet again it is a sad fact that a significant number of boys may not take the plunge due to the main character being female.
So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in history-or at least her family's (very crooked) history. For Kat there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat's dad needs her help. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a normal life proves harder than she'd expected. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own - scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria.to steal the crown jewels. When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre.to case it.
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