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208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
"I have one thing to say," he announced. "You look like a nice old lady. Really nice. Really kind, sweet, gentle. You are not nice", he added.
"How did you get Debby?" she demanded.
He chuckled. "Very simple really. Yugov picked the lock of your room, rolled her into a rug and dropped her out of the window into my arms. These things are very casually done in the Balkans."
"One asks, "is this to be died for?"
He smiled. "Is not worth dying for, no, but worth being alive to do."
"...this was exactly the age, she thought, when life ought to be spent, not hoarded. ... One could not always change the world, she felt, but one could change oneself."It's this approach that gets her into all these pickles — every time she plays courier, lol. Ya gotta love her for standing up for her convictions! And such an innocuous spy.
"Because someday I hope a man will look at me the way he looked at Mrs Pollifax."Now don't forget...Wednesdays.