The Secret Adversary.

4.0 out of 5 stars

Life could give us an unexpected adventure.

By Belmontes Joshua (October 29th, 2013)

The Secret Adversary, from Agatha Christie. 

The story happens in London, 1919, when World War I has finished. Two old friends, Miss Prudence Cowley (Tuppence) and Major Thomas Beresford (Tommy) are looking for a job; life is expensive and they need money. But furthermore, they are looking for something else in life: Adventure. Tuppence is a very clever girl and she find a way of getting adventure and money, and Tommy joins to her in it. But they didn’t imagine what sort of things they’re going to pass through.

Tommy and Tuppence are hired for a mysterious objective: To find a missed American girl know as Jane Finn, who was traveling from US to France in an ocean liner called Lusitania. Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915 by a German submarine, and the ship sank, but Jane was one of the survivors. Someone saw Jane receiving a sensitive confidential document from the American ambassador. This document had the purpose of help Britain's Government through the War but for 1919, when the War was over, that document would be very harmful.

Now Jane is missed and nobody knows about her. But an evil secret group is trying to find her to pick the document she had and use it to manipulate Labour Party and British people to create a bolshevist revolution and defeat British Government. This secret group is leaded by a mysterious person known as “Mr. Brown”, but actually nobody of the group knows him: The Secret Adversary.

Tommy and Tuppence start following people of the secret group to get clues about the whereabouts of Jane. They'll try to find Jane before the group does it, because the group has been ordered to make a general strike on the 29th of the current month. But trying to accomplish their task, they will put their lives in danger, they will known secrets of the Government, they will be in a suspicious environment but also they’ll change their lives.

Agatha Christie was an internationally recognized writer; her books have been sold to many countries and the genre is mainly mystery. Her book “The Secret Adversary”, written in 1922, is her second novel and the first one with the young couple of detectives Tommy and Tuppence. This couple and another famous character, Hercule Poirot, would catch the hearts of millions of readers through a very big number of books.