Author: Peter O'Donnell
Publisher: Souvenir Press (1971)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN-10: 0285620088
ISBN-13: 9780285620087
Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has light creasing and chipping along top edge, with two small closed tears. Spine has a lean. Else an internally clean, well bound copy.
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 284
Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.5 cm
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by Peter O'Donnell (First Edition)
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Modesty Blaise's friend Novak died trying to preserve his discovery of the Impossible Virgin, a secret that meant enormous wealth, but right at the last moment, he babbled. When Modesty makes a forced landing in Central Africa, she meets the man who possesses Novikov's secret without knowing it - Giles Pennyfeather, the guileless and blundering young doctor with a gift for healing. In saving Giles from Brunel, a dangerous killer, she buys yet another ticket to danger, for Brunel is determined to have the secret. Modesty and her lieutenant, Willie Garvin, take on Brunel and his partners in a fierce and devious battle. How she fights back, and at last learns the truth of the Impossible Virgin and her ferocious guardians, brings this fifth tale in the saga of Modesty Blaise to an astonishing climax.