Brigitte en Acción: Espionaje científico

Catalog Note "Brigitte en acción" (Brigitte in Action) is a spy thriller by Lou Carrigan featuring the CIA agent Baby Montfort, codenamed Brigitte. The narrative opens with Brigitte visiting her superior, Charles Pitzer, who is ill with a cold, to receive an assignment. A U.S. spy satellite designated SS-Cuatro (Spatial Spy-Four) has malfunctioned and fallen into the Caribbean Sea near Martinica. The satellite, equipped with sophisticated infrared cameras capable of photographing objects from orbit and programmed to eject microfilm-containing capsules via parachute for recovery, carries classified intelligence that multiple international espionage services now seek to obtain. Pitzer and his assistant Simón task Brigitte with traveling to the island of Martinica to surveil the area from a villa called La Mouette, owned by the elderly French aristocrat Annette Símonet, the Duchess of Montpelier. The operation involves offering the duchess financial compensation in exchange for lodging while conducting reconnaissance using binoculars.