Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle

January 1, 1988
Fans of Emily Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station) will welcome back the well-mannered, tea-pouring Garden Club chairman, who is also an adroit and canny agent for the CIA. This time her assignment seems simple: while she and her husband Cyrus Reed are vacationing in Thailand, she is to pick up some valuable information on drug smuggling from an informant called Ruamsak. Everything goes awry immediately: Ruamsak is murdered, Cyrus is kidnapped and Emily joins forces with Bonchoo, an intriguing stranger with complex reasons of his own for wanting to find Cyrus. The usual phalanx of muddled but supportive CIA agents try to follow Emily through the jungles of Thailand and are seriously rattled when one of their directors abruptly vanishes, only to reappear in the Golden Triangle as the head of all illicit drug trafficking. Pollifax needs all her wiles and her considerable skills in the martial arts, not only to track her husband but also to put a serious dent in the heroin trade. She accomplishes everything with vigor and charm.

Mrs. Pollifax is a sweet old lady who is as sharp as a tack and who is a successful CIA agent to boot. She's the "Miss Marple" of the spy world, and she's about to leave for a holiday in Thailand with her husband, Cyrus, when she is contacted by her boss to make one little detour to pick up a packet of information. So begins the adventure. Barbara Rosenblat is expert in voicing her characters; everyone of them is spot-on, and the accents are perfect. The characters come to life under her skillful interpretation. The listener will be hooked from the outset and eager to learn how it all ends. S.S.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine