The stakes in The American Agent are so much higher as everyone in London is endangered by the nightly German bombings. Unlike some of the more recent Maisie Dobbs books, the action takes place all in England, and most of Maisie's friends, colleagues and family are all here- Billy and Sandra, who work for her at her private investigations agency, police investigator MacFarlane, Priscilla and her family, and Maisie's father and stepmother, along with the young orphan girl Maisie is trying to adopt. When an American female radio war correspondent is murdered shortly after Maisie and Priscilla meet her, Maisie is asked to team up with an American Department of Justice official, Mark Scott, whom she met when she was in Spain during their Civil War. Maisie and Priscilla worked as ambulance drivers when we first met them many books ago during WWI. Maisie is balancing working as a private investigator and volunteering with her best friend Priscilla as ambulance drivers, ferrying civilians injured during the bombings of London. The 15th in the series is The American Agent, and with its setting of London during the German blitz, it's one of the best in the series. I always look forward to March when the new Maisie Dobbs novel publishes. Count me in as one of the many Maisie Dobbs series fans.
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