'Cobra Trap' is a collection of stories about Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin. All the stories except the last one, 'Cobra Trap' flesh out stories Peter O'Donnell first created as comic strips. I've read some of the graphic novels, one in fact has the story, 'The Bellman'. This story is more fleshed out in greater detail in this book. These stories are a good read and a good peek into the lives of Modesty and Willie. The Last Story, 'Cobra Trap', I warn you not to read if you like your favorite characters to live happily ever after. In fact I try to forget I've read it by re-reading their adventures over again. It was very well written, but shocking and much too sad. If Mr. O'Donnell had left that story off when he wrote the book, it would have been a very good collection of stories.