75. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist by Dorothy Gilman (Spy Mystery) 203 p.
Mrs. Pollifax, the CIA’s most unlikely agent, agrees to help her old friend Farrell on a private mission to Jordan. An old friend of Farrell’s, Iraqi novelist Dib Assen, has recently died in prison. Before his arrest, he made arrangement to have his last novel smuggled out of the country and into Jordan, where it is to be passed directly to Farrell by a man he knows only as “Ibrahim”. Mrs. Pollifax is going along only as cover for Farrell, but her strange encounter with a man on the plane to Jordan lands the two in fresh dangers.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit, although it never really rises above run-of-the-mill spy mysteries. It has the definite flavour of a British cozy, although the plot is that of a spy novel. All in all, it provided me with an amusing couple of hours and will be kept to re-read whenever I need cheering up.
Books read: 75/100 (75%)
Pages read: 22,460/25,000 (90%)
