Passenger To Frankfurt An Extravaganza by Christie, Agatha - 1970

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The bottom spine end of the book cover has a light bump and some beginning fading in a thin strip. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has a couple of small semi-closed edge tears. The spine joints and panels of the dust jacket have strips of fading and rubbing. "Phyllis Lassner compares Passenger to Frankfurt with the Cold War novels of John le Carré, and with the novel The Salzburg Connection (1968) by Helen MacInnes. These novels reassess the victory of the Allies of World War II, and question the stability of post-war peace. The novels dramatise their era's anxieties about the re-emergence of Fascism during the Cold War. Lassner views both Passenger to Frankfurt and The Salzburg Connection as "speculative political fantasies". Both Christie and MacInnes employed tropes typical for spy fiction: "masculine leadership", double agents, and thrilling chases and getaways. However, both female writers revised the typical gender roles of the spy fiction genre. The female characters of the two novels play an important role in investigating and intervening in international crises. While spy fiction writers typically reduce the female characters to sidekicks or romantic distractions for their protagonists." (from Wikipedia) .