Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Gilman, Dorothy |
| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
| Date: | 5/1/2001 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Mrs. Pollifax gives Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple a rival to reckon with.”—The Toronto Star
After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives ofthe passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus ina blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, possiblymurdered.
Masquerading as Amanda Pym’s worried aunt, Mrs. Pollifax begins her determinedsearch, slipping through Damascus’s crooked streets and crowded souks . . . and trekkingdeep into the desert. Yet she is shadowed by deadly enemies, whose sinister agendathreatens not only Mrs. P. but the fragile stability of the entire Middle East. Onlya miracle–or a brilliant counterplot—can forestall a disaster that will send shockwaves around the world.
“Ms. Gilman has a nice, relaxed style and an easygoing way of telling a story.”—The New York Times Book Review
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