Modesty Blaise Books (Study Guide): Modesty Blaise, Cobra Trap, Last Day in Limbo, a Taste for Death, Sabre-Tooth, Dead Man's Handle baixar o livro de graça

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Modesty Blaise, Cobra Trap, Last Day in Limbo, a Taste for Death, Sabre-Tooth, Dead Man's Handle, the Impossible Virgin, I, Lucifer, Pieces of Modesty, the Silver Mistress, the Night of Morningstar, the Xanadu Talisman, Dragon's Claw. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Modesty Blaise is the title of an action-adventure/spy fiction novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1965, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip in 1963. This was the first novel to feature the character of Modesty Blaise and her right-hand-man, Willie Garvin, and the series of books (all written by O'Donnell) ran concurrently with the comic strip until 1996 (the comic strip ran until 2001). Technically, this is a novelisation of a screenplay O'Donnell wrote based upon the character, although it predated the film release by a year. The filmed version of the screenplay bore little resemblance to O'Donnell's original (the author was often quoted as saying only a single, inconsequential, line of dialogue remained from his original script). Although the 1966 film version of Modesty Blaise was not a critical success, the book proved popular with fans of both the comic strip and readers of spy fiction (Blaise was promoted on the cover of the first American edition by Doubleday as the feminine answer to James Bond), and O'Donnell followed up with 10 more novels and two short story collections over the next 30 years. Cover of the first Modesty Blaise American edition by Doubleday, a rendition of which was featured in the film Pulp Fiction. Art by Jim Holdaway.Most of the books had their first United Kingdom editions published by Souvenir Press, with Pan Books publishing all but the final volum...http: //booksllc.net/?id=5500123