Book 7 in the Mrs. Pollifax series finds the matronly spy off on another adventure, this time in Hong Kong.
A young man she befriended on a previous trip to China, Sheng Ti, works for an importer, Feng Imports. Tom Detwiler also works for Feng Imports but he has a side job: he provides information to the CIA. But lately it has become apparent that Detwiler is compromised. The CIA wants Mrs. Pollifax to use her friendship with Sheng Ti to get inside Feng Imports and figure out what is going on with Detwiler.
Nothing is ever that simple in a Pollifax story and complications soon arise once she is in Hong Kong. But with the help of a new friend and of an old friend and at the risk of her neck, Mrs. Pollifax will come shining through.
This was a good story. Mrs. Pollifax is a little less active than she usually is in one of these stories, which I thought was way more believable than some of the stunts she pulls in so many of the stories. She travels around Hong Kong and views the many sights and spends much of her time at her hotel, acting like a normal woman in her fifties or sixties.
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