Delusional skeptic, reveling in a multiple-personality disorder. Alternating between a 21st-century blogger, a 3rd-century BC Carthagenian general, a 5th-century BC druid, a 23rd-century BC Beaker-people trader, a 20th-century Estonian freedom-fighter, a time-traveler, and a sheepdog in Wyoming.
The
night of fishing had been uneventful; a few small bass earlier in the evening,
half a dozen northern pike – none bigger than a pickle – and then,
nothing.The zip of his baitcaster
unspooling and the plop of the bait hitting the water were the only sounds he’d
heard for the last hour. Until the helicopter exploded.
(from Afraid – A Novel
of Terror, by J.A. Konrath, aka Jack Kilborn) 8*/10.The full review is here. .
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