Batty, newly returned from a long blogging hiatus, tags me with something called the 123 Meme.
The 123 Rules:
1) Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!)
2) Turn to page 123.
3) Count the first five sentences.
4) Post the next three sentences.
5) Tag five other bloggers.
Crap. Worse, the nearest book is a caper novel, not Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" or something nice and highbrow.
That realization was all it took. Carla was not going back to prison, not if she could do anything to stop it. Running was the only answer.
If you want to find out what happened to Carla you'll have to find a copy of Once A Thief by Kay Hooper. As you may have noticed, when I find a new author I tend to read everything he or she has written, usually trying them out from the library first. That's what I did here. I saw a reference to Ms. Hooper's thrillers about a psychic FBI unit and thought they'd be worth a try, and I got interested in her other books as well. The FBI books aren't bad, but you'd better have a willingness to suspend any disbelief you have about ESP if you expect to enjoy them. This book is much more along the lines of Topkapi, The Thomas Crown Affair, or It Takes a Thief.
Tag yourself; it's an amusing little exercise.
Posted by Linkmeister at February 7, 2008 02:23 PM | TrackBackHeh, that's still more interesting than the instructions for canning that the cook book that was near me had! And there's nothing like winter for a good caper read. Which reminds me, I have a mystery somewhere I meant to read...
Posted by: batgrl at February 7, 2008 09:35 PM