In their very first adventure, Tommy and Tuppence uncover an audacious plot to destroy Great BritainIn postwar London, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley are having a grand old time—except for the fact that they can barely afford a pot of tea between them. With no jobs
The secret adversary
✍ Scribed by Agatha Christie
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;William Morrow & Co
- Year
- 2001;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the "Young Adventurers," and advertise themselves as willing to "go anywhere and do anything." Asked by a British Intelligence official to find a woman named Jane Finn, who disappeared with sensitive government documents, they soon find that their whimsical idea has drawn them into a complicated web of intrigue, intelligence agents, dubious identities, missing government papers, false clues and all-too-real danger.
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