A review by tomasmoreira21_
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie

3.0

During most of the time I've spent reading this book, I really was enjoying the mystery, the foreshadowing, the diplomatic world and somehow the strange and odd plot. The book takes place in the Post-WWII world and we first meet a bored, average diplomat named Stafford Nye, who has a very suspicious encounter with a stranger, a young girl, who persuades him to do her a favor. From the on, we are introduced to the world of spies and so on and Agatha thought of a whole alternative scenario for this post-war period, where wages of rebellious youth, under the influence of talented and twisted-minded speech-makers and leaders, organize manifestations, protests and install chaos in many countries. Aside from that, we have other arcs going on and at the end, everything feels confusing and underdeveloped. It's all about the ideas, because I didn't become attached to the characters and their lives and the little twists and turns the author introduces at the end don't have any impact at all. A lot of potential, but it was a very weak way of inaugurating Agatha Christie's books.