Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

I heard an audio version of a Mrs. Pollifax adventure many years ago while I was commuting to work. As I recall, it was somewhat over the top and silly. However, this Mrs. Pollifax is more believable and serious when she goes on an assignment in Red China as part of an American tourist group. I wasn......more

I haven't read a Mrs. Pollifax since I was a teenager. I vaguely remember liking the series and that she reminded me of my grandmother. My grandmother was the woman I admire most and if I had found out she was a CIA agent and had a brown belt in karate, I would not be surprised. The woman was a rip-......more

karate is deadly this time, hi-yah! p173: up they went at a 90-degree angle, the crazed horse slowing a little but not, felt mrs. pollifax, from any change in his determination to destroy her, and certainly not from repentance, but due entirely to the steepness of the hillside. reminded me of the firs......more

Mrs. Pollifax is off to China in her sixth assignment for the CIA, operating as cover for another agent, unknown to her, that is also in her tour group, and whose mission is to rescue a dissident engineer from a labor camp and smuggle him out of the country. As our gradmotherly heroine gets to know......more

This was sufficiently entertaining, but nothing special ... and, to be clear, my two Goodreads stars are what they are - the book was OK, but, again, nothing special. Definitely not one of my favorites in the series (although the last few pages were pretty good ... but not enough to justify or salva......more