Hiring themselves out as "young adventurers willing to do anything" proves to be a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. The first job sounds likes a dream. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expense-paid trip to Paris and pose as an American name Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now Tuppence's newest job is playing detective - because if there's a "Jane Finn" that really exists, she's got a secret that's putting both their lives in danger.
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The Secret Adversary is Agatha Christie's second novel and my second Agatha Christie novel. I'm trying to read all of her novels in order of publication. So far, I think it's going to be a pleasurable challenge.
Young Adventurers Tommy and Tuppence are super cute and lots of fun. I really hope Dame Christie has a few more novels about this young couple.
The Secret Adversary is completely different from Dame Christie's first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Set in London, England shortly after the first world war, money is in short supply for many young people, including Tommy and Tuppence. To earn some cash, T&T decide to form Young Adventurers, an adventure/spy agency.
Coincidences abound as T&T find themselves working for the government to try to track down Jane Finn and some important documents that were in-trusted to her five years earlier on board the sinking Lusitania. While trying to track Jane Finn the young adventurers must also work against the mysterious Mr. Brown, who appears to be one of the main characters. Rather than the typical whodunit, the reader must figure out where is Jane Finn and who is Mr. Brown.
T&T's youthfulness, combined with the colourful colloquial language Dame Christie employs in the characters' direct speech make this novel a hoot. It's not at all realistic, but who needs realism when you've got a cast of international characters fighting over England's political future.
3/5
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