The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Emily Pollifax in the "twilight of her years"-a phrase she herself would detest-lives alone at the Hemlock Apartments, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her children up and gone, every volunteer occupation tediously similar, and a "respectable widowhood" awaiting her, Mrs. Pollifax decides she is definitely ready for a change. And what Emily Pollifax decides, Emily Pollifax does. The recruiting officer at the CIA would have saved himself a lot of unnecessary time and embarrassment if he had realized that from the start. If Mrs. Pollifax had chosen spying as a second career, there was little to nothing that could stop her. She is, as the CIA and its enemies are soon to find out, quite unexpected.