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Title:
Mrs Pollifax on the China Station
Series: Mrs
Pollifax #6
Author: Dorothy Gilman
Rating:
4.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Thriller
Pages:
174
Words: 62K
Publish: 1983
Absolutely
delightful! I have been alternating Mrs Pollifax with the Alphabet
Mystery series and I must say, it is a true delight to return to the
adventures of Emily Pollifax.
She is calm, poised and while not always “in control”, she never allows the circumstances around her to impede what she must do. In this book near the end, she has to face down an armed Russian sleeper agent and ends up karate chopping him to death. Scenes like that are why this isn’t “cozy”. She’s also old enough not to fall to pieces after such an act. She’s in no way stupid and I for one appreciate that Gilman actually writes her character to be intelligent.
Another successful foray into the underbelly world of the CIA. Mrs Pollifax hasn’t failed me yet and I doubt she’d fail you either.
★★★★✬
From Wikipedia.org
Mrs. Pollifax is thrilled when Mr. Carstairs, her boss at the CIA, gives her an assignment in China to help rescue a prisoner from a labor camp. As luck would have it, she has recently completed a course in Chinese history, so she is primed and ready to go. She joins a tour group and is told that one of the other group members is actually a CIA agent who will become her partner later on. She tries unsuccessfully to detect her future partner and is very surprised when the agent's identity is revealed. As the action speeds up she finds the labor camp, rides a runaway horse, and encounters some rough stuff from a Russian spy.
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