Following the ideas of Frontini and Sormani, we present a modified Newton method in Banach space which is used to solve the nonlinear operator equation. We establish the Newton-Kantorovich convergence theorem for the modified Newton method with third-order convergence in Banach space by using majorizing function. We also get the error estimate. Finally, two examples are provided to show the application of our theorem. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.