Title: The Silver Mistress
First published: September 28, 2002
Description: This seventh novel in the Modesty Blaise series will not fail to please any of Modesty's innumerable fans. Modesty and her partner, Willie Garvin, are hot on the trail of a captured British Intelligence agent, but when they confront the agent's bizarre captors-a criminal tycoon, a genteel lady assassin, two inscrutable Chinese killers, and the invincibe Mr. Sexton, the world's premier combatant-even Modesty begins to doubt that she can succeed in this operation. Her task is further complicated when Willie's girlfriend and a young pilot also are taken hostage. Their situation seems hopeless until the Silver Mistress appears, bringing this thrilling saga to an astonishing climax.
Subjects: 1970s, Fiction, Intelligence service, Women spies, Fiction in English, Popular English Fiction, Fiction - General, Mystery/Suspense, FIC, FIC022000, General, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery and detective stories
Places: Great Britain
People: Modesty Blaise, Willie Garvin, Sir Gerald Tarrant, Mr. Sexton, Colonel Jim Straik