They Came to Baghdad

Agatha Christie
HarperCollins • 2003

She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad. But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure ...that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, someone issued a hushed warning, and her rival for Edward's affections neatly arranged her kidnapping. From the steamy Arab marketplace to the vast and arid desert, Victoria was pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world ...
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Zišli sa v Bagdade je pozoruhodný román Agathy Christie z roku 1951, nie klasická detektívka, ale dobrodružný špionážny príbeh inšpirovaný autorkinými cestami do Bagdadu. Do mesta prichádza Victoria Jonesová pod zámienkou, že je neterou známeho archeológa, a nečakane sa ocitne vo víre udalostí, keď do jej izby vtrhne ranený špión s tromi záhadnými slovami, pričom v centre diania je tajné stretnutie svetových mocností a tajná organizácia, ktorá sa ho snaží zmariť. Kniha sa vymyká tradičnej tvorbe Christie, ponúka originálnu myšlienku a napínavé momenty, no miestami pôsobí nepravdepodobne a preplnená postavami, takže dnes už nemusí nadchnúť každého, no zostáva klasikou, ktorú netreba vynechať.

She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad.

But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, someone issued a hushed warning, and her rival for Edward's affections neatly arranged her kidnapping. From the steamy Arab marketplace to the vast and arid desert, Victoria was pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world ...