Destination Unknown (novel)
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Destination Unknown (published in 1954), also known as So Many Steps to Death, is a spy fiction novel by Agatha Christie.
Plot
Hillary Craven, a deserted wife and bereaved mother, is planning suicide in a Moroccan hotel, when she is asked to undertake a dangerous mission as an alternative to taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The task, which she accepts, is to impersonate a dead woman to help find the woman's husband - a nuclear scientist who has been kidnapped. However, a faked air disaster, a string of radioactive pearls, a leper colony floundering in the dry heat of the Morroccan desert all lead Hilary to the realization that her will to live has returned, but that it may be too late.
Trivia
The novel reflects the true-life events of a 1950s espionage case involving Bruno Pontecorvo and Klaus Emil Fuchs, two physicists who betrayed their countries to work for Communist Russia.
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