"If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? ... The arrests grow insane."<br/><br/>At the very hour this message is en route to the CIA, Mrs Pollifax is waiting for her night-blooming cereus flower to do its thing. She hardly gets to see its flowers, though, before being whisked off for another daring mission halfway across the world.<br/>Soon she is sporting a beautiful new hat - perfect for hiding eight forged passports.<br/><br/>Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.