Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Brunswick, NJ goes as a tourist to China for the CIA. She must act as cover for a CIA agent she is not permitted to know, with the ultimate aim of extricating Mr. X, a political prisoner in China.

This time the mysterious Mr. Carstairs sent her to Switzerland-to a famous health resort where the world's intelligence agents had gathered. The mission: to track down a missing package of plutonium. Just enough tomake a small atom bomb.

Part-time CIA operative Mrs. Pollifax is dispatched to sunny Sicily to help her sometimes colleague Farrell who has been wounded and is trapped in a mountain village. But soon Mrs. Pollifax herself is a target for professional killers.

In Dorothy Gilman's best-selling mystery series, loveable grandmother Emily Pollifax has captured the hearts of millions with her secret CIA missions. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist whisks the gray-haired agent into a perilous web of intrigue that spreads across the drifting sands of the volatile Middle East. An old CIA friend, Farrell, must collect an inflammatory manuscript smuggled out of Iraq into Jordan. Farrell has a simple request for Emily-provide...