Publication

2000 - Ballantine Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

48,750 words, Guess

Page Count

195 pages

Identifiers

and 7 more
  • Goodreads530604
  • LibraryThing148897
  • Library of Congress Control Number99091742
  • OCLC Control Number43352192
  • Better World BooksW6-AIE-999
  • Better World Books9780345436528
  • Better World BooksW6-AHF-168

Classifications

  • LCCPS3557.I433 M76 2000b
  • LCCPS3557.I433M76 2000b
  • LCCPS3557.I433 M76 2000
and 1 more
  • DDC813/.54

Description

After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, possibly murdered.Masquerading as Amanda Pym's worried aunt, Mrs. Pollifax begins her determined search, slipping through Damascus's crooked streets and crowded souks . . . and trekking deep into the desert. Yet she is shadowed by deadly enemies, whose sinister agenda threatens not only Mrs. P. but the fragile stability of the entire Middle East. Only a miracle--or a brilliant counterplot-- can forestall a disaster that will send shock waves around the world.

Description

"Seven weeks ago, a young American woman, Amanda Pym, faced down hijackers on board a flight to the Middle East and saved the lives of more than two hundred passengers. In a blaze of celebrity, she stepped off the plane in Damascus and was whisked away in a waiting car. Since then ... nothing. The CIA believes she was kidnapped and murdered.". "Masquerading as Amanda Pym's worried aunt, Mrs. Pollifax begins her determined search, slipping through Damascus's crooked streets and colorful, crowded souks ... and trekking deep into the desert, hoping that rumor and whispers - which are all she has to go on - will lead her to the truth." "Yet she is shadowed by deadly surreptitious enemies whose sinister agenda threatens not only the missing woman or Mrs. P. herself but the fragile stability of the entire Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

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  • Mrs. Pollifax unveiledBallantine Books2000-01-01

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