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.

Whose plans has the apparently ordinary young woman interfered with? The machinations of the mukhabarat, Syria's dreaded police? The schemes of cutthroat terrorists? Or has she simply gone into hiding?

Masquerading as Amanda Pym's worried aunt, Mrs. Pollifax begins her determined search, slipping through Damascus' crooked streets and colorful, crowded souks, and trekking deep into the desert, hoping that rumor and whispers (which is all she has to go on) will lead her to the truth.

In this latest book in Gilman's series, Mrs. Pollifax flies to Syria on another mission. She must find Amanda Pym, a young American who saved 200 people on a highjacked plane and then disappeared. Even though Mrs. Pollifax is a harmless appearing grandmother, Sharon Williams often makes her voice sound too young and sweet. As the story progresses however, Williams finds a more settled and mature voice for Mrs. Pollifax. Williams gives an appropriate ring of authority to Carstairs and changes easily into an Arabic accent when needed, and her clear diction and excellent pacing draw us deeper and deeper into the adventure. P.G. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

 

Dorothy Gilman is the author of the Mrs. Pollifax series of novels, as well as several others. She divides her time between Norwalk, Connecticut, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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