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The Night of the Morningstar

Modesty Blaise

The Night of the Morningstar( )
Author: O'Donnell, Peter
Series title:Modesty Blaise Ser.
ISBN:978-0-285-63615-6
Publication Date:Sep 2001
Publisher:Souvenir Press Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

Following many requests to know more about Modesty's early days, this tenth book of her ever popular adventures, starts with a flashback to the last days of her career with her criminal organisation The Network before it was wound up and Modesty retired. The final astonishing operation is echoed several years later, in this story - The Night of the Mormingstar. Throughout this action-packed adventure Modesty and Willie are their resourceful best, using their skill in combat...
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Book Details
Pages:276
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.992 x 7.644 x 0.858 Inches
Book Weight:0.44 Pounds
Author Biography
O'Donnell, Peter (Author)
Peter O'Donnell was born in London on April 11, 1920. During World War II, he served in a signal regiment in the British Army, assigned to France, Persia (now Iran), Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy and Greece. He began drawing comic strips for children as a teenager, and after the war he wrote a number of different strips including Dr. No, Garth, and Romeo Brown on a freelance basis. He created the Modesty Blaise comic strip, which was published in The London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001.

During his lifetime, he wrote more than 20 Modesty Blaise novels including Sabre-Tooth, A Taste for Death and The Night of the Morningstar, two short stories collections, and a play entitled Mr. Fothergill's Murder. He wrote a series of 19th-century romance novels under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. He also wrote for television, film, women's magazines and children's papers. He died on May 3, 2010 at the age of 90.

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