The Impossible Virgin Author:Peter O'Donnell 1971 American First Edition Jacket in Mylar protective cover. — Modesty Blaise is back, and at the top of her form as she and Willie Garvin, her long-time sidekick, set out on the most dangerous and, in her own words, "the maddest of all our capers." — Actually, it's Modesty's good heart that almost proves their undoing in a battle of wits with an... more » arch-villain who considers killing an act of mercy-for most of his victims, he has more diabolical plans. To defeat his schemes, Modesty and Willie have to rely on every bit of cunning, strenght, and luck they prossess-along with a wild and completely unprecedented robbery, a confrontation with an angry gorilla, emergency surgery in a cave, and a climactic, hand -to-hand struggle with fifteen armed killers in a remote African valley.« less