The Secret Adversary introduces Agatha Christie's characters of Tommy and Tuppence, an out of work young man and woman who decide to become 'adventurers' out of a lack of anything better to do. They quite accidentally get sucked into an international mystery that reaches to the highest levels of British government. Agatha Christie's popular detective team Tommy and Tuppence make their first appearance in this novel, in which the duo is hired to find a woman who disappeared with sensitive governm