Remembering Peter O'Donnell & Modesty Blaise

I was going to blog about something completely different today, but I heard that Peter O'Donnell had died and it made me think about Modesty Blaise. I grew up reading Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise books, and I was so enamoured with her character that I actually wanted to BE Modesty. Modesty was a beautiful, sophisticated, intelligent, powerful, ex-criminal, black-clad, secret service agent. What's not to love? Okay, she was pretty much a female James Bond, so that was quite a high and ...