Usually, I have two books going at any one time - a habit established back in about 1983 when I lived in Albuquerque. One book is by my reading chair, the other by my bed. Usually, but not always, the one by my bed is lighter - something that I don't have to work at to keep track of (The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn having been one notable exception). Currently, I am nearly finished with The Big Kahuna by Janet Evanovich and Peter Evanovich. Unfortunately, Janet E who is known for writing chick books that are somewhat sexy and boisterously funny, had disappointed me with this book. (Should I blame it on Peter since this is the first book I've read on which he was listed as co-author?) Be that as it may, I read one sentence, this evening, that made it worth reading the other 267 pages that I'd gone through to get to it.
Kate (FBI), her father Jake (retired Navy Seal), and Nick (Kate's FBI partner) have abducted a leading crime figure from his well-guarded home in New Zealand by paragliding, at night, into his compound. After setting explosives off to light fires throughout the bad guy's vineyard as a distraction, they make their way into his house and taze him into submission. They send him, via dumb waiter, down into the commercial kitchen of his home.
Nick retrieved a shopping cart full of groceries and dumped its contents onto the floor. "Come on, Viktor. Time to go." He and Jake heaved the still scramble-brained [Viktor] Neklan into the cart.
I've high-lighted the "worth it" sentence. I'll give you a hint as to why by quoting from a radio program to which I listened as a kid: The Lone Ranger. As we heard horses riding off into the distance, the main characters shouted:
Lone Ranger: Hi-Yo, Silver!
Tonto: Get 'em up, Scout!
Dan (LR's nephew): Come on, Victor!
I'm pretty sure that the allusion was intentional since, in the preceding 15-30 pages several quotations from various sources are given as dialogue by one of the characters while another character identifies the source of each.
Perhaps I should go to bed, now.
I love Janet Evanovich books but only the ones on which she is sole author. The others are very disappointing. I wonder if she even does any writing on the co-authored ones or if they use her name.
Nice link. The Lone Ranger had a nephew?! But I thought nobody knew who he was.
Glad HH's op went well too.
Posted by: Liz Hinds | October 18, 2019 at 07:35 AM
Liz--I agree with your assessment on Evanovich books; but, I keep hoping.
As to the link to the Wiki, I was surprised to read that (in the mythology of comics) "After college, Dan became a publisher and founded his own newspaper, The Daily Sentinel. By that time he had married and had a son, Britt, who eventually took over the newspaper himself and, initially unbeknownst to his father, adopted the secret identity of The Green Hornet, a masked crime-fighting vigilante, though to the public at large the Hornet was viewed as a criminal, which made it easier for Britt as the Hornet to infiltrate the criminal underworld." I also listened to The Green Hornet, but don't recall hearing that back-story.
Posted by: Cop Car | October 18, 2019 at 08:21 AM