Description:This latest installment in the Modesty Blaise pulp-fiction series
opens with Willie Garvin, Modesty's loyal lieutenant, rescuing a Hong
Kong businessman from a Red Chinese jail. The thrills continue when
Willie is kidnapped by Sibyl Pray and held prisoner at the Hostel of
Righteousness, the headquarters for delusional terrorist Dr. Thaddeus
Pilgrim, on the Greek island of Kalivari. The plot thickens as Willie is
brainwashed into believing that Modesty has been killed and that he
must kill her murderer—a woman who looks exactly like Modesty. When
Modesty finds herself kidnapped and brought to Kalivari, she is forced
to fight in deadly gladiatorial combat against Willie. Peppered with
ingenious twists of fortune, varied and exotic locations, and a cast of
fiendishly evil villains, this is a classic Modesty Blaise adventure.