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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780449147603
ISBN number: 0449147606
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: July 30, 1991
Publishing house: Fawcett
Release Date: July 30, 1991
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Mrs. Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing. Their very first informant is killed, and Mrs. Pollifax begins to get the idea that her colleague is not who he says he is. Still, she forges ahead, checking out suspicious informants, and coming to the conclusion that someone is an imposter and someone wants her dead....
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I like Gilman's books and this one especially because it includes the middle east, north africa, and islam.
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. . . and the inimitable Mrs. Pollifax of Dorothy Gilman's imagination kept me reading BUT it was not until chapter 15 that the Dervish emerges ~ as a captive. In this 9th *adventure* the wisdom of this Sufi holy man gives pause to the two on a secret mission for the CIA and strengthens their resolve. The reader must also have resolve, to sort out the author's thoughts about international politics & covert machinations.
One sane thought is injected along the way: "Never NEVER underestimate the lust for power - - it makes pawns of most of us . . . ". Emily Pollifax, the Yankee gardener-grandma & sometime undercover agent is paired with "Max" until they become "Alisha" and "Bashir" ~ she is veiled & both are wearing Moslem djellabahs. Their supposedly simple mission to confirm the identity of 7 informants in exotic Morocco has become most intriguing!
An 'unbecoming' thought or two: does a story-line, whether innocent or propagand-ish, inspire a trip (tax write-off) OR vice versa? Do these 'light entertainments' encourage readers to accept too casually the mayhem of undercover operations?
Foreign back-drops draw many readers with braying camels and "the gold & apricot colors of a desert dawn". Long before Mrs. P. is parted from Sidi Tahar and Ahmad ( the young boy so recently attached to them), the holy man tells Emily, "It is said that humility is the wealth of the poor, and that sitting with the rich hardens the heart." SO, mcHAIKU cautions you readers to remember to "Trust in Allah but tether your camel first." "Bismallah."
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Mrs Pollifax is sent on an assignment to accompany a CIA agent on a mission to verify the identity of 7 foreign agents who are sympathetic to the Western Sahara independence cause. She has photos of the 7, and at least one might end up being an imposter. Along the way, unexpected danger occurs as her fellow CIA agent makes her nervous, and their very first foreign contact is murdered. Mrs Pollifax is put into peril and is chased through the desert.
The descriptions of the scenery in Morocco are unusually good in this book. I took special interest in this since I recently read a book about Islam and was curious about Whirling Dervishes. In the book, we get a description of the dance of the Dervish. And of course the general sense of adventure is excellent. I highly recommend this book.
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Mrs. Pollifax is looking for an adventure and finds one in Morocco. One of the undercover agents helping the CIA is not who he's supposed to be, and we try to guess along with Mrs. Pollifax before it's too late. Great atmosphere and appealing characters.
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Dorothy Gilman writes smoothly and plots excellently. I am certain that others have compared her to Agatha Christie. This story begins as Carstairs determines that a situation requires the presence of Mrs. Pollifax. He thinks that Emily Pollifax would be able to correct whatever lack of tact the CIA man, Max Janko, possessed. He feels that it would be dangerous for Mrs. Pollifax to know too much. The destination is Morocco. Some years ago Mrs. Pollifax volunteered to be spy. Before being called this time she ws beginning to fear that Carstairs felt she was too old to be of any further use. She agreed to go to Morocco the following day. She is successful in her mission to foil the attempts of someone making impersonations of persons promoting the interest of the Polisarios. In the course of her adventures she encounters a small boy, a holy man, the sufi or whirling dervish of the title, and a former superior of Carstairs. The holy man she encounters is someone who saved Carstairs from certain death when he was serving in the OSS during World War II.
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