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Title:
Mrs Pollifax Pursued
Series: Mrs Pollifax
#11
Author: Dorothy Gilman
Rating: 4.5
of 5 Stars
Genre: Thriller
Pages:
151
Words: 49K
Publish: 1995
This
book really jumped up in my opinion. I bumped it up a whole star and
even thought about giving it a rare 5star. Something about it just
resonated with me and I enjoyed it thoroughly from start to finish.
Part of that is that Mrs Pollifax is now an experienced agent and
when something out of the ordinary happens at her own home, she takes
charge. Of course, she gets embroiled in even more adventures but
everything is tied together and at the end everything works out. Just
like a Mrs Pollifax story should.
Tension was inherent in the story from almost the beginning and I wasn’t left wondering how things were going to go sideways for Mrs P. She is home in the US and not on assignment, so she can’t accidentally get in trouble. Trouble comes looking for her! We get African politics, Carney people and other stuff. Mrs P spends time at a carnival, which is also a CIA safehouse and ends up solving some attempted murders there.
And that is why this didn’t get the 5stars. Attempted murders. Of only the good guys. Some badguys get offed, but both of the good guys are going to make a recovery by books end. At least one of the two people should have died to keep the feeling of tension at the high point. It was just a little thing, but little things are why my 5stars are so rare.
Probably the best Mrs Pollifax book so far though. That’s high praise, as the whole series has been consistently good. It is fun, it is thrilling, it has great plot lines and most importantly, it has characters with brains instead of fluff. That is the highest praise I can give an author, that they wrote intelligent characters.
★★★★✬
From Wikipedia
Mrs. Pollifax discovers a young woman hiding in a closet of her Connecticut home on the same day that she observes a suspicious white van patrolling the neighborhood. Kadi Hopkirk says the men in the van have been following her ever since she met Sammy, a childhood friend from the African country of Ubangiba. Mrs. Pollifax hides Kadi in the car and takes to the highway but is unable to shake the van until she calls on her colleagues at the CIA, who send a helicopter to whisk them away to a traveling carnival in rural Maine. Mrs. Pollifax poses as a journalist, and Kadi becomes the lower half of the woman who is sawed in two, while the CIA pals find out who Sammy is and why he is being so heavily guarded. Mrs. Pollifax solves several mysteries, including a stabbing at the carnival, Kadi and Sammy's story and the abduction of a wealthy executive.
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