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.

A thrilling selection of stories following Modesty Blaise, aided as always by Willie Garvin, from her early days running The Network to working with Sir Gerald Tarrant of British Intelligence. In the title story, Modesty faces the toughest assignment of her life, an attempt to rescue friends held by rebels in the jungles of Central America.

The thirteenth and last book in the series, Cobra Trap (available in paperback for the first time) will leave you moved by its poignant and touching finality.

‘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