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in 1942, after which his unit was moved to Syria, Egypt, the
Western Desert, and Italy, and he was with forces that went into Greece in October 1944. After the war, O'Donnell returned to civilian life and began to script comic strips, including an adaptation for the
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film, no further new productions related to the character have been released as of 2015. In 2007, working with young women students at
Bullers Wood and Newstead Wood schools, O'Donnell established an official website, Modesty Blaise, Ltd.
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short story collection) and was also said to have retired from full-time writing (in 2002, he gave Romero permission to adapt one of his short stories, "The Dark Angels", to a comic initially published in
Scandinavian anthology magazine
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O'Donnell's wish was that no one else write any future
Modesty Blaise stories, but whether this was ever formalized is unknown. With the exception of "The Dark Angels" adaptation and the
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said the novels were "endlessly fascinating" and that Blaise and Garvin were "one of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of
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