5/11/2023 0 Comments The unexpected mrs pollifax book![]() ![]() Events transpire and the majority of the rest of the novel takes place in Albania. ![]() Pollifax’s gig starts off with her heading off on a flight to Mexico City. Luckily, one of the handlers is working on a project wherein he requires an older operative for a courier-type mission. Pollifax hits the public library, looks up the address to the CIA headquarters, and takes a metro-train right on over. That’s basically what happens – with a little coincidental help. Well, what a different world 1966 must have been that Pollifax could enter the CIA in D.C. ![]() After visiting her medical doctor and having a brief meeting with an elderly neighbor, Pollifax decides to visit Washington, D.C. In fact, she has even suffered some rather self-destructive thoughts. Pollifax realizes her life has become tedious, boring, and dull. She is a widow and has two adult children with lives of their own. The main character, Emily Pollifax, is a senior citizen who decides that she should finally pursue one of her greatest dreams – to be a spy. ![]() That is actually the main reason for its relative fame. It was first published in 1966 and is not a mystery novel, but a spy-novel. I finished the first novel in the Pollifax series, The Unexpected Mrs. ![]()
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