This book was exactly what I expected it to be except when it wasn't. I was incredibly surprised that this book published originally in the '60s or '70s was so candid about Mrs. Pollifax's feelings of uselessness and suicide. I mean let's be honest even today we don't talk about whether or not Grandma or Grandpa are feeling mentally awful. So let this be a reminder to check on the elderly humans in your life.
Mrs. Pollifax is at her doctor's office when he asks her something she's always wanted to do. She says "Be a Spy." He laughs of course reminding her that it was silly ambition when she was young so it's even sillier now that she's old. Except Mrs. Pollifax isn't your standard widowed housewife, the more she thinks on it the more she thinks it wouldn't hurt to at least ask to become a spy. So the very next day she sets off to Washington D.C. to become a spy setting off a harrowing adventure that starts in Mexico and ends in Albania.
Like I said this is exactly what you'd think it is. Mrs. Pollifax is delightful and delights everyone, including her captors. She's incredibly funny because she is so blunt, and she is, of course, one badass elderly woman. I think that kinda comes with the whole spy territory, she had to be just a little badass before she even started out on her journey. Needless to say, she and her fellow captives kick commie ass (there is no way this was not going to involve communists) all while somehow completing Mrs. Pollifax's original mission. Mostly because the one guy who does end up dead was pretty smart but somehow Mrs. Pollifax gets the credit for it, which was the only annoying portion of this book.
Overall this was just a fun little adventure book and I'll definitely be continuing the series.
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