Sunday, January 28, 2018

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “What do you want now?  I don’t know any bombers or anarchists.  My ignorance of such things is precious to me, and I intend to keep it until I die peacefully of old age, sitting in the sun on some park bench.  I can’t help you – but I suppose I can try, if you insist.”

    “Lieutenant Edwin Lovat,” Pitt replied.  He liked McDade and he had nothing pleasanter or more useful to do than extract information from him a piece at a time.

    “Dead,” McDade said simply.  “Shot through the chest – heart, actually.  Small handgun, close range.  Very neat.”

    “Great skill required?” Pitt asked.

    “Only for a blind man with a moving target.”


    (from Seven Dials by Anne Perry)

  8½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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