The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
by Dorothy Gilman
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Author: Dorothy GilmanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-09-12
ISBN: 0449215237
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Fawcett
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Book Review: Mrs. Pollifax blooms--er, strikes--again
Summary: 5 Stars
"I seem to bloom once a year," muses Emily Pollifax, that 60-some, shrewd and spirited grandmother and occasional CIA agent, when Mr. Carstairs, for the third time, calls on her in the month of July. One of his Bulgarian agents has barely escaped the country with his life, bringing a plea for passports and identity papers from a mysterious underground group, and these Carstairs wants Mrs. Pollifax to deliver--even though, as his assistant Bishop observes, he ages 10 years every time she's on an assignment. ("She breaks all the rules," he complains-- "doesn't even know there *are* rules. She goes off on tangents, operates on impulse and trusts her intution." But that's one of the reasons she's so useful.) But "Upstairs" wants to make more efficient use of her, much to Carstairs's irritation, by also using her as a mule to unknowingly smuggle in a large amount of counterfeit Russian paper money. There's also the question of General Ignatov, the ambitious and dangerous new darling of Bulgaria's Soviet masters, who's been courting the younger members of the country's secret police. Then Mrs. Pollifax unexpectedly crosses paths with a group of young tourists--"almost hippies," as the US consul in Sofia complains--one of whom, Philip Trenda, is scarcely inside Bulgaria before he's arrested for espionage. Soon she discovers that this incident is part of a sinister plot to extort a huge ransom from his wealthy father--and that he isn't likely to survive it. What's more, some of the Underground members for whom her cargo of passports are intended have been cast into the same prison. So, naturally, Mrs. Pollifax--assisted by an expert bowman, a goose-wrangler, a fabricator of fireworks, an American girl with a gift for gymnastics, and a Bulgarian patriot of decidedly mysterious origins--makes up her mind to get them all out. What follows is perhaps the most delightful and fast-moving yet of the Pollifax saga, which really hits its stride with this entry.
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While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urgent orders for a daring mission to aid an escape. Soon, the unlikely-looking international spy was sporting a beautiful new hat that hid eight forged passports....Literature & Fiction Books
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