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Title:
Mrs Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
Series: Mrs
Pollifax #13
Author: Dorothy Gilman
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Thriller
Pages:
155
Words: 51K
Publish: 1997
The
penultimate Mrs Pollifax story. This time the author isn’t afraid
to name names or deal with REAL situations.
I was still recovering from Lewis’s The Abolition of Man when I read this, so I just kind of sat back and soaked this in, like sitting in a pool. I just let the whole story wash over me without trying to think. I simply enjoyed. Sometimes that is all I ask of a book. Not very often, but occasionally that really is enough and this was one of those times. I enjoyed the beginning, the middle and the end and I didn’t have to stretch myself at all.
I benevolently pat this little book on its head and send it scampering off to play with all the other little books out there.
★★★✬☆
From the Internet
In Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist by Dorothy Gilman, elderly CIA operative Emily Pollifax travels to Jordan to help smuggle a dangerous manuscript exposing Saddam Hussein. Posing as a tourist to cover for her retired agent friend John Farrell, she faces immediate danger, deadly pursuits, and uses her wits and karate to survive.
The Mission and Arrival
The Goal: Retrieve and smuggle out an inflammatory manuscript written by a murdered Iraqi dissident that details the dark truths of Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Cover: Emily acts as the fun-loving tourist cousin of her partner, John Sebastian Farrell.
The Threat: On the flight to Amman, Emily's suspicious seatmate hides a map and key inside a carving in her luggage, launching them straight into a web of terrorists and secret police.
Danger in Jordan
Missing Contact: Their scheduled meeting with Farrell's contact at the Crusader castle of Karak results in finding a dead body instead.
The Chase: Tracked by Jordanian terrorists, Iraqi secret police, and local authorities while touring with a local guide and his sister, the pair must navigate shifting loyalties and life-threatening traps.
The Climax: The high-stakes adventure concludes at an ancient desert fort where Mrs. Pollifax uses her signature karate skills to outwit and take down the villain
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