The kidnappers cannot find the hidden information and move the two Americans to a small prison camp they maintain in Albania. Her contact is murdered and she is kidnapped along with another American spy by Chinese agents. She is sent as a tourist to Mexico to engage in three weeks of normal sightseeing, and then pick up a book containing hidden reports from a top CIA operative, and bring it back to Washington.īut it all goes wrong.
So she goes to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia and offers her services as a spy! Due to some confusion and poor communication there, she is in fact hired to perform a single very low risk assignment. (It is only five years after JFK exhorted his countrymen to “ask what you can do for your country” and the cold war is at its peak.) She decides to take him at his word and decides she wants more adventure and a chance to do something for her country. A regular checkup with her doctor informs her that she is very healthy, but he wisely advises her to find something to fill her life with purpose, a reason to get up and look forward to her day.
The Low Down on the Pollifax StorylineĮmily Pollifax has lived a full life: raised a family, done a lot of volunteer work, had a fine husband who died a few years earlier. A few were familiar with the Pollifax series and it became a finalist for this year’s reading. So when the mystery book club did their book selections for this year, I threw “Ruth’s book” into the pot because I was curious how others would feel about it.
In fact, the only mystery she ever read and liked was The Unexpected Mrs. While I am a mystery book fan and a lover of thrillers and police procedurals, my wife is not. Pollifax, the book by Dorothy Gilman that our mystery book club read for February and that we met to discuss today. So it was today as I reflected on The Unexpected Mrs. What do you see in the famous illustration on the right: The vase or the two faces? It depends, right?
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