PETER O'DONNELL

Born in London, O'Donnell started writing as a teenager but at 18 he joined the military as WWII started. He was assigned to the Royal Signal Corps and stationed throughout the Middle East and the Med. When the War was over, he got a job wrriting for comic strips for newspapers. This included a brief stint on the James Bond Dr. No arc. He wrote for the Garth series from 53-66 and for Romeo Brown from 56-62. In 1963 he was given the chance to create his own series and he gave us the incomparable Modesty Blaise which he wrote continually until 2001. Besides the Modesty Blaise books, he wrote a number of books under the name of Madeleine Brent.