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This time trouble finds Mrs. Pollifax instead of the other way around. On a quiet spring day, when all she wants to do is plant basil in her Connecticut greenhouse, a missing salami leads her to a shocking discovery--a young woman has been hiding in her junk closet for two days, undetected by the ever-watchful Mrs. P.
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All Mrs. Pollifax has to do is help a bumbling CIA agent confirm the identities of seven undercover informants in Morocco. A simple assignment. But right away, things go wrong. The first informant is murdered just after Mrs. P. identifies him in Fez. Worse, she has the frightening sensation that her associate is not who or what he says he is.
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Part-time CIA operative Emily Pollifax flies to the Middle East to pick up a novel written by an executed Iraqi dissident. On arrival she sees no sign of her contact, only dead bodies, Arab terrorists and Iraqi spies. Danger is everywhere. Fortunately, Mrs. Pollifax knows karate.
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A mysterious assassin has already killed four vital international figures, and all that's known of him is his code name, Aristotle, until Carstairs of the CIA intercepts a message implying that the man has a rendezvous on a safari in Zambia. What could be more reasonable than that Carstairs send Mrs. Pollifax on safari too--his favorite part-time agent, the grandmother who raises geraniums in New Jersey and has a wicked karate slice.
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Although Mrs. Pollifax is determined to give up spying for good, she can't help but agree to carry a small object to an agent in Thailand, and get one in return. The moment she lands, however, Mrs. Pollifax is horrified to find her contact dead and her husband kidnapped. The next thing she knows, she's tramping through the ominous Thai countryside, led by a curious fellow who may be trying to help her find her husband. Or he may have other, more sinister...
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When Emily Pollifax recieves an airmail, special delivery letter bidding her to rest and recuperate in a convalescent home in Switzerland, she knows Carstairs is behind it. And within minutes, Bishop calls with a most astonishing explanation. Nine pounds of plutonium have been stolen in two separate shipments in America and England, and it is believed they have been sent with highly suspicious designs to the Hotel-Clinic Montbrison, a luxurious health...
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