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Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)

de Agatha Christie

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Sir Stafford Nye's flight home from Malaya takes an unprecedented twist when a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. In a moment of weakness, he agrees to lend her his passport. Unwittingly, the diplomat has put his own life on the line. When he meets the mystery woman again, she is a different person, and he finds himself drawn into a battle against an invisible?and altogether more dangerous?enemy. . . .… (més)
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This was the oddest Christie novel I have encountered so far, more along the lines of Bellamy's [b:Looking Backward|40010967|Looking Backward|Edward Bellamy|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1525142287s/40010967.jpg|61962565] or Sinclair's [b:It Can't Happen Here|11371|It Can't Happen Here|Sinclair Lewis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388361997s/11371.jpg|1296784], rather than her usual murder mystery. I liked some of what she did with this story, but it felt a lot less polished and natural than I would have expected. In this book, a man gets drawn into a plot to cause mass revolution worldwide, or perhaps to thwart such revolutions, depending on what side his new lady friend is working for. The story centers on the Nazis, and many of the characters seem almost pro-Nazi. The overall message seemed almost that the Nazis were on the right track and were just thinking too small. ( )
  JBarringer | Dec 15, 2023 |
Dreadful ( )
  archivesman | Nov 19, 2023 |
Sir Stafford Nye, un diplomático peculiar, vuela con destino a Londres cuando, por causas climáticas, el avión debe aterrizar en Frankfurt. Ahí, una misteriosa chica que dice estar en peligro de muerte le pide ayuda. Él accede sin imaginar que, ahora, es su vida la que está en riesgo.
  Natt90 | Mar 21, 2023 |
A minor diplomat is recruited to help in fight against an international plot to destroy governments. More of a spy thriller than a traditional mystery.
  ritaer | Nov 13, 2022 |
I was so conscious that my U3A Agatha Christie reading group might make heavy weather of this novel that I wrote them some guidelines for their reading:

I am very conscious that you won't find PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT the easiest book to read but please persist.

Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravanganza is a spy novel by Agatha Christie first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1970 and in the US later in the same year.

It was published to mark Christie's eightieth birthday and, by counting up both UK and US short-story collections to reach the desired total, was also advertised as her eightieth book. It is the last of her spy novels.

Plot Summary (from Agatha Christie fandom)
Sir Stafford Nye's flight home from Malaya takes an unexpected twist when the bored diplomat is approached in an airport by a woman whose life is in danger, he agrees to lend her his passport and boarding ticket. Suddenly, Stafford has unwittingly entered a web of international intrigue, from which the only escape is to outwit the power-crazed Countess von Waldsausen who is hell-bent on world domination through the manipulation and arming of the planet's youth, which brings with it what promises to be a resurgence of Nazi domination. Unwittingly the diplomat has put his own life on the line; when he meets the mystery woman again she is a different person and he finds himself drawn into a battle against an invisible and altogether more dangerous enemy.

There is more detail and a list of characters at https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/Passenger_to_Frankfurt but you may not want to look at that until after you've finished reading it and after you've made your own notes.

So, in reading it, I suggest you make your own notes and try to think about the following questions

think about Christie the social commentator: what is she observing happening in the world (in the 1950s and 1960s)?
think of the world events that are described in various chapters as snapshots from television news reels. Make a list of some of them
Make a list of the world problems that Christie identifies.
What does the Young Siegfried symbolise? Who is he?
What does the young woman to whom Sir Stafford Nye lends his cloak at Frankfurt airport carry into England?
Where and when did Christie make this sort of commentary before?
What does this novel have in common with one that we read earlier, DESTINATION UNKNOWN?
Make a list of your own questions and comments not covered by mine

This novel had a very mixed reception. Can you understand why? Is it a satire or are we meant to take it seriously?

I read this novel nearly 10 years ago and really didn't give it much credit then and gave it a rating of 2.0

Today I am feeling a bit more kindly to it, but have still only given it 3.5 and I feel there is a certain clumsiness about it and I don't think it was a style she was suited to. ( )
  smik | Aug 21, 2022 |
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Sir Stafford Nye's flight home from Malaya takes an unprecedented twist when a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. In a moment of weakness, he agrees to lend her his passport. Unwittingly, the diplomat has put his own life on the line. When he meets the mystery woman again, she is a different person, and he finds himself drawn into a battle against an invisible?and altogether more dangerous?enemy. . . .

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