Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, a female action hero/undercover trouble-shooter/enforcer. He was also an awarded gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent, in 1978, her novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, “a centrifugal tendency.” In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.”
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