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.
[edit] Plot
Hilary 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 disappeared and may have defected to the Soviet Union. Soon she finds herself in a group of travellers being transported to the unknown destination of the title. Her will to live may have returned, but has it returned too late?
[edit] Trivia
The novel reflects the true-life events of a 1950s espionage case involving Bruno Pontecorvo and Klaus Emil Fuchs, two physicists who defected to the Soviet Union.