Mrs. Pollifax is recruited to deliver some passports to the Underground Resistance in Communist Bulgaria. It seems like a straightforward courier job, but nothing is ever straightforward with Mrs. Pollifax. She befriends a group of young hippie tourists, and when one of them is arrested for espionage, Mrs. Pollifax suspects that something else is going on.

I like Mrs. Pollifax more and more all the time!
This is everything a spy novel should be! Suspense, humor, horror, adventure, friendship, surprise twists.... it's all there in abundance! The writing is superb, and the plot is fantastic!
The characters have some great development, and they grow and change with the story.

The little insights, the fresh brilliance of the writing... I can't even describe it. A phrase here and there just jumps out at you with its... rightness. Like words are puzzle pieces that fit in place, and out comes a form of poetry in prose. I always know I'm going to love a Dorothy Gilman book, because her writing is just that good!

Fabulous stuff, and I want to read more.