![]() ![]() ![]() The Secret Adversary is a very different type of book from Christie's Hercule Poirot novels. So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by The Secret Adversary. ![]() ![]() The other two were Murder on the Orient Express, which was very good but didn't inspire me to read more Hercule Poirot books and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was just okay. This is only the third Agatha Christie novel I've read. And that's just in the first few chapters! Beggars can't be choosers, however, so Tuppence agrees to accept a retainer, and in short order she and Tommy are sucked into a world of international intrigue, missing documents, spies, and master criminals. As they're musing over their impecunious fortunes, Tuppence has an idea: they should start their own business and be professional adventurers! Tommy agrees to put an ad in the paper just to humor her, but no sooner do they part ways than Tuppence receives a job offer from a very suspicious bloke. Tommy and Tuppence are old friends who run into one another in post-WWI London and find themselves in the same boat: they're broke, unable to find work, and on the verge of being thrown out of their respective abodes. Topics: espionage, wwi, love, master criminal ![]()
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