Night of the Hats

  The Night Of Morningstar In London an assassin tries to kill retired criminal and now freelance secret agent Modesty Blaise with a crossbow. She turns the tables and kills him. As she was accompanied by Sir Gerald Tarrant of British Intelligence they aren’t sure which of them were the target. To try and find out Modesty goes to America, avoiding her usual spots, while her partner Willie Garvin keeps a watch on Sir Gerald. As the book tells us this was in fact an attempt on Modesty as the final initiation test for the assassin to join The Watchmen, a mysterious multi-national terrorist group. In the prologue, Hugh Oberon was recruited to join Modesty’s criminal Network, only for her to promptly dismantle it; when he tried to take over she humiliated him. Two birds, one stone; he tries to have her killed as revenge and for his job as trainer for The Watchmen. This having gone wrong, he hires two Polish assassins to kill Sir Gerald to put everyone off the scent and heads to S...