That Sweet Little Old Lady

FBI agent Kenneth Malone has an impossible assignment: find a telepathic spy stealing classified secrets from inside the Bureau itself. Every conversation could be compromised. Every agent is a suspect. And then he meets Miss Thompson, a sweet little old lady who claims to be Queen Elizabeth I, and who might be the only person in Washington who can actually help him. That Sweet Little Old Lady isSpy vs. Spy rewritten by P.G. Wodehouse: a clever, funny puzzle box dressed up in trench coats and Cold War paranoia. The telepathic threat is genuinely inventive, the comedy lands, and Miss Thompson is one of those characters who walks off with every scene she dominates. It endures because it proves you don't need body counts to build tension, and because there's something wonderfully escapist about watching a stressed FBI man try to save national security while arguing with a charming madwoman who insists she reigned in the 1500s.