Books that I have read in 2006

Finish Date: Thursday, December 28, 2006
Pages: 346
Genre: IT Security/Espionage/Computer Crimes
First Sentence: James Bond is the second worst spy in history; the first worst spy is Sydney Bristow from the TV show Alias.
Last Sentence: There is no hype, just common sense based on common knowledge.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Those who are already paranoid about information theft, both personal and professional, should take a muscle relaxant before reading this eye-opening survey of the many holes that exist in our security and intelligence systems. Author Winkler (Corporate Espionage) began his career at the National Security Agency, and his exploits in the private sector, testing security systems by breaking into banks and high-profile companies, have earned him a place in the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame.
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Friday, December 15, 2006
Pages: 340
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The grave was substandard.
Last Sentence: Already he had been granted a second chance to do it right.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Jack checked his watch: 2:30.
Last Sentence: day by day...
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In Wilson's well-wrought ninth Repairman Jack novel (after 2004's Crisscross), the off-the-books fix-it man, urban vigilante and paranormal adventurer reconnects with his estranged brother, Tom, after their father is gunned down in a terrorist attack at La Guardia Airport. Tom, a corrupt Philadelphia judge who's fleeing the law and rapidly running out of money, persuades Jack to help him look for the wreckage of a Spanish treasure ship that sank in 1598 off Bermuda...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Sunday, November 26, 2006
Pages: 365
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Atlanta Federal Prison swam slowly out of the smog as the helicopter beat its way south from Fulton County Airport.
Last Sentence: If he hurried, he would be in time for lunch.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In this artfully plotted thriller, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden, wrongly convicted of a murder he suspects was the work of Dan Barker, his former superior, is offered a chance at a presidential pardon if he will infiltrate the sinister religious cult that has taken control of St. Clair, Idaho. Despite knowing that he will again be under the control of Barker and that two previous agents investigating the cult have vanished, Jesse can't refuse...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, November 18, 2006
Pages: 336
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: THERE WAS A SMALL TURNOUT, ABOUT FIFTY PEOPLE, TO watch the time capsule being buried next to the flagpole in front of the county.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, November 11, 2006
Pages: 375
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Julie careened into her office.
Last Sentence: Because they had plenty of time now.
Summary: Julie Gordon, a 28-year-old New York neurophysiologist, is pulled away from a breakthrough research project investigating memory via virtual reality technology when she gets an anxious call from her uncle in France. Her estranged twin sister, Samantha, has fallen into an unexplainable coma and seems to be dying, though she does not have a discernible illness. Julie agrees to use "memoryscape," the spectacular computer program she helped create, to search the minefield of her sister's memory. As Julie already knows, both sisters' history is irrevocably scarred by visions of the tragic house fire that killed their parents 23 years ago...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Pages: 615
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Collection of tales from horror novelist Koontz.
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Pages: 280
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The old man held three dead honeybees in the palm of his caramel-colored hand.
Last Sentence: But whenever I hear a song I like, I now check the liner notes to see who wrote it.
Summary: From Publishers Weekly In Edgar-winner Housewright's entertaining second noirish mystery starring Twin Cities ex-cop Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie (after 2004's A Hard Ticket Home), an elderly family friend, Mr. Mosley, asks Mac to look into the mysterious deaths of some bees at his honey farm. A University of Minnesota graduate student, Ivy Flynn, identifies an insecticide as the cause, but not before Mr. Mosley's surly new neighbor, Frank Crosetti, takes a shot at Ivy while she's collecting soil samples near his property...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Pages: 287
Genre: Dramatical Novel
First Sentence: George Tibbits stepped from the 4:03 with a small leather suitcase, the only passenger to disembark in Barton.
Last Sentence: Alice gazed up at the white shape of a gull coasting overhead and waited for the ferry to pull alongside the dock.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Wartime disrupts the lives of the inhabitants of a New England islet off the coast of Rhode Island in this graceful debut novel. The men of Snow Island engage in the dangerous business of quahogging, and their families eke out a living running small businesses that depend on the wealthier summer residents for survival. Alice Daggett is 16 years old in 1941. She attends school in a one-room schoolhouse with twins Lydia and Pete Giberson, the only companions her age on the island, and has shouldered the responsibility of keeping the family store running since the death of her father five years earlier...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Sunday, October 15, 2006
Pages: 448
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Here's the book you need to prepare for the latest version of CompTIA's Project+ exam. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Friday, October 6, 2006
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: LA Traffic.
Last Sentence: We'll call it Kill the Messenger...
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Hoag's success, evidenced once again in this engaging new thriller, is the triumph of substance over style. Here, before they know it, readers are invested in the dilemma of Los Angeles bike messenger Jace (J.C.) Damon, on the run after picking up a package from high-powered attorney Lenny Lowell, who is subsequently murdered. Orphaned Jace lives under society's radar in Chinatown, with his 10-year-old brother, Tyler; his surrogate family includes sassy dispatcher Eta Fitzgerald and the Chen clan, the boy's closest neighbors...
Favorite Quotes: "You can't take it personally. You make it personal, you lose perspective."

Finish Date: Sunday, September 24, 2006
Pages: 424
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The elements and symbols indicative of extreme violence and sexual perversion in this dream are so exaggerated and so bizzare that they point to the conclusion that the individual perpertrating the acts is in the grip of a chaotic bloodlust.
Last Sentence: I knew even then that I was waiting for the man of my dreams.
Summary: (rom Publishers Weekly) Isabel Wright, a Belvedere Center for Sleep Research analyst and Level Five lucid dreamer, meets the man of her dreams in bestseller Krentz's (Truth or Dare, etc.) romantic thriller...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Friday, September 15, 2006
Pages: 446
Genre: Finance Reference
First Sentence: Have you ever made such a mess of things that you were sure there was no way out?
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) After moving to New York from Chicago for a lucrative position at a new television court show, Bosnak digs herself into a more than $20,000 hole in less than a year. With stars in her eyes, she blindly plunks down $778 on lingerie here and $387 on a cut and color there. She justifies her frivolity as "emergencies" and "investments" in herself. "I was twenty-seven years old and I wasn't going to be a spring chicken much longer. So I needed these nighties to look as sexy as I could because I needed to land a man...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Friday, September 8, 2006
Pages: 176
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Out on empty highway, it called.
Last Sentence: They say a rainstorm's on the way.
Summary: (Dorchester Publishing): When a car filled with teenagers gets a glat tire out in the middle of the Arizona heat, the kids figure they have time to check out the Mystery. Behind curtains, in a glass case, lies a small withered corpse with very long fingernails. Above it, tacked on the wall, is a sign: Do Not Touch. Do Not Feed. But is has to be a hoax, right?
Favorite Quotes: "Sometimes when I'm not sure I believe in God, I think of goodness." She glanced over at him. "That's all God is. Goodness. That there's goodness here. On earth. That it's our job to find it. To create it. To keep it going. Like a flame in your hand. Like a little fire everyone can hold if they want to. And it means fighting sometimes. It means standing up to darkness."

Finish Date: Thursday, September 7, 2006
Pages: 391
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: On a slow, chilly saturday in december, shortly after the Lakers overcame a sixteen-point halftime deficit and beat New Jersey, I got a call from a murderer.
Last Sentence: I'll be here, too.
Summary: (From Booklist): It has been eight years since two-year-old Kristal Malley was brutally murdered by two young teenage boys, and Alex Delaware has pushed his role in the drama out of his mind. Then a phone call from one of the boys, Rand Duchay, now released at age 21, brings the sad, sordid circumstances back...
Favorite Quotes: "Love this place. [referring to airport] Two hours of security line worked by morons. I had to take off my shoes, they tossed my carry-on, frisked me. Meanwhile, everyone else, including a guy who could be Osama's twin, sails through."

Finish Date: Thursday, August 31, 2006
Pages: 384
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: She woke in darkness
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Abercrombie's disturbing police thriller, the first in a new series, introduces feisty African-American detective Mechelle Deakes. Demoted to the Atlanta Police Department's cold case unit after getting busted for buying crack, Deakes is drawn to a series of unsolved murders in the city and surrounding areas that date back to the '80s. Each case involves children whose bodies exhibited unusual bone decalcification, the result of malnutrition...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, August 12, 2006
Pages: 460
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: With draft beer and a smile, Ned Pearshall raised a toast to his deceased neighbor, Henry Friddle, whose death greatly pleased him.
Last Sentence: There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of cat and mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest gripping suspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and former writer, is content with his solitary Napa County existence listening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars; visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carving wood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated when he finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he must choose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderly humanitarian in six hours.
Favorite Quotes: There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Finish Date: Saturday, August 12, 2006
Pages: 94
Genre: Entrepreneurship/Business
First Sentence: One sunny Sunday in Chicago, several former classmates, who were good friends in school, gathered for lunch, having attended their high school reunion the night before.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Monday, July 24, 2006
Pages: 751
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache...
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Library Journal) Koontz's latest novel should please his longtime fans but probably not newcomers. Martie Rhodes takes her best friend, Susan, to therapy sessions twice a week. Susan suffers from agoraphobia, a fear of crowds, which leaves her afraid to leave her apartment. Getting Susan to therapy is hard enough, but on this particular day it gets even harder. Earlier that morning, Martie looked at herself in the mirror and found she was terrified of her reflection. She has developed autophobia, a fear of self. With the vilest villain Koontz has created, the truth behind their phobias will be more horrible than Susan or Martie can imagine. False Memory could have been trimmed by 200 pages and not lost any impact. Still, the characters are rich, and the main story is compelling. Though it is not great Koontz, good Koontz is still better than most and should be added to general fiction collection. ---Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Sunday, July 2, 2006
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: In the dark, Joanna Rand went to the window.
Last Sentence: Within the hour, they were sitting in a nearly empty passenger car, holding hands, as the last train out clattered toward midnight and then, finally, beyond.
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Friday, June 23, 2006
Pages: 776
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, June 17, 2006
Pages: 308
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Each time she thought of it, she felt he body shiver, felt the pistol cold in her hand, the pressure of her finger as it drew down upon the trigger.
Last Sentence: Okay, so, happy ending, right?
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) A kaleidoscopic array of viewpoints tumble and shift in this latest suspense thriller by Edgar Award-winner Cook (The Interrogation, etc.), until the facts settle into place and the full picture can be understood. The complex arrangement of voices and events works smoothly, bringing each of the protagonists more clearly into focus as the story progresses. As the novel begins, Sara Labriola is fleeing Tony, her husband of nine years. It's not that she doesn't love him, but Tony's overbearing mobster father, Leo, casts a long shadow over Sara and Tony's marriage...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006
Pages: 370
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: It was pitch black.
Last Sentence: It was a perfect day in the most beautiful place on God's earth.
Summary: Married FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are on the trail of a serial killer who targets math teachers, but when Sam Kettering, the son of their widower friend Miles, is kidnapped, they turn their attention to getting the boy back. Six-year-old Sam and Sheriff Katie Benedict, of Jessborough, Tenn., already have the situation in hand...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, June 10, 2006
Pages: 572
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Pages: 180
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: I was captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.
Last Sentence: We have exchanged long letters and I hope to see him again one day.
Summary: In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance.
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Pages: 355
Genre: IT Fiction
First Sentence: A computer can execute millions of instructions in a second.
Last Sentence: To discover that between the blinks of the machine's shuttered eye - going on without pause or cease; simulated, imagined, but still not caught - was life.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Essayist, memoirist (Close to the Machine) and computer industry pioneer Ullman has now produced an illuminating novel about the fate of a programmer, Ethan Levin, who wrestles with an ineradicable bug in the heroic era of computing. It is 1984, and Telligentsia is an information technology startup engaged in creating a database and an interface to access it. While such a project is ho-hum now, at the time screen graphics were a novelty and the mouse was a puzzling and esoteric artifact. The story is narrated by Roberta Walton from the perspective of 2000, remembering her first IT job as a quality-checker for Telligentsia, which she takes after a failed bid for an academic job in linguistics. Berta finds Ethan's bug, UI-1017, but there's a catch: it appears and disappears erratically, so she can't get a "core dump"-a picture of the part of the code where the bug resides. Ethan must do the debugging, but he's in no shape to face the problem. Insecure about his job because he doesn't have an advanced computer science degree, he codes far into the night, driving his neglected girlfriend, Joanna, into the arms of a weedy hippie. Everybody at Telligentsia secretly feels at sea, but for Ethan the uncertainty starts to have deep psychological effects. As Berta comes to realize, Ethan's ever more alarming quirks are correlatives of the deeper collective madness of Telligentsia's impossible schedules and uncertain innovations.
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Pages: 448
Genre: Finance Reference
First Sentence: N/A
Last Sentence: N/A
Summary: (From Library Journal) Having shown us The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Orman now explains how we can achieve both financial and spiritual well-being simultaneously.
Favorite Quotes: N/A

Finish Date: Friday, April 28, 2006
Pages: 256
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: WE'RE ALL PRISONERS OF our minds.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Framed for the murder of DEA agent Danny Rodrigues during a drug bust, former New York City police detective John Shannon is released after serving two years in prison. Innocence Watch lawyer Nora Matthews helped free Shannon after finding irregularities in the government's case against him. Shannon is determined to put his life back together with his wife and son and find the person who really murdered Rodrigues. Barely out of prison, Shannon is offered a choice by the ex-CIA agent who runs New York's Office of Municipal Security: take a job with the agency or face rearrest and a retrial for murder. Angrily turning down the job, Shannon soon learns that his son, J. J., is missing...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Monday, April 24, 2006
Pages: 415
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Eleven thirty-eight P.M.," Rollins said quietly into the tiny Panasonic in his palm.
Last Sentence: And her big hat flew right off her head.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Dysfunctional families, damaged children and murderous greed collide against an insufferably preppy backdrop in first-timer Sedgwick's ambitious thriller. The protagonist, Edward Rollins, is a timid American Psycho: rather than killing his quarry, he merely follows it. A wealthy Bostonian with a cushy finance job, Rollins is also a meticulous voyeur, following strangers in his car and recording his observations on tape. One night he trails a mysterious man in an Audi, who goes into a darkened house without turning on any lights...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, April 1, 2006
Pages: 300
Genre: Short Stories
First Sentence: N/A
Last Sentence: N/A
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) "This was the stuff of Twilight Zone," frets a bewitched character in the first story in this worthwhile collection, setting the tone for the remaining selections. Though its contents range from dark suspense to light fantasy, the 12 stories and two stage and television scripts that make up Wilson's first full-length compilation since Soft and Others (1989) all have a macabre edge honed on the hard experiences of their characters. In "Slasher," the bereaved father of a murdered girl confronts the self-destructive potential of his rage when he accepts the help of an enigmatic FBI agent with clues to the killer's whereabouts...
Favorite Quotes: N/A

Finish Date: Saturday, April 1, 2006
Pages: 352
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Now that she was deprived of sight, her other senses were intensified.
Last Sentence: By the time mother and daughter finished their conversation and got up from the table, there was nothing left on either plate.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In Clark's latest KEY News mystery (after Hide Yourself Away, etc.), correspondent Diane Mayfield heads to the quaint New Jersey beach town of Ocean Grove, not for a much-needed vacation but because even the sunniest of resorts has its newsworthy, hidden darkness. When Leslie Patterson, a young Ocean Grove woman reported missing for three days, is rescued virtually unharmed and claims she was kidnapped, police, friends and family believe her disappearance was a hoax and a cry for attention...
Favorite Quotes: N/A

Finish Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Pages: 335
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Rain was drumming hard against the windows when the midnight-10-8:00 rounds began at San Francisco Municipal Hospital.
Last Sentence: She's the one who nailed you to the wall.
Summary: (San Francisco Chronicle) THE 5TH HORSEMAN RIDES. It is a wild race against time as Lindsay's investigation reveals a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club hunt for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff...
Favorite Quotes: He told my mom about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Famine, Death, Pestilence, and War ... The Fifth Horseman was Man, and that Man was the most dangerous of all.

Finish Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006
Pages: 326
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Colonel Geoffrey Shafer loved his new life in Salvador, Brazil's third-largest city and some would say its most intriguing.
Last Sentence: I kept telling myself that until I finally believed it.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In his 10th adventure, Alex Cross, now working full time for the FBI, is confronted by two of his most deadly foes: the faceless ex-KGB agent from last year's Big Bad Wolf, who's known as "The Wolf" and is threatening four metropolises with nuclear destruction; and the insane serial killer The Weasel, last seen in Patterson's Pop Goes the Weasel. Patterson's action is fast and furious, and narrators Fernandez and O'Hare do a fine job of keeping up with him. O'Hare does especially well with his performance of The Wolf, giving the Russian-accented villain a calm, almost soothing vocalization that nicely counters his sadistic actions...
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Pages: 277
Genre: Dramatical Novel
First Sentence: The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.
Last Sentence: I still don't know.
Summary: (Oprah Book Club Selection, April 1998): "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity...
Favorite Quotes: "This is just one of those things that sounds a lot better before and after than when you're actually doing it."

Finish Date: Saturday, February 4, 2006
Pages: 109
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.
Last Sentence: The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
Summary: (Amazon.com) In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Pages: 320
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA

Finish Date: Saturday, January 14, 2006
Pages: 432
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: I wake to the drone of an airplane engine and the feeling of something warm dripping down my chin.
Last Sentence: Yes, I'm ready.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Frey is pretender to the throne of the aggressive, digressive, cocky Kings David: Eggers and Foster Wallace. Pre-pub comparisons to those writers spring not from Frey's writing but from his attitude: as a recent advance profile put it, the 33-year-old former drug dealer and screenwriter "wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generation." While the Davids have their faults, their work is unquestionably literary. Frey's work is more mirrored surface than depth, but this superficiality has its attractions...
Favorite Quotes: Life is hard, Kid, you gotta be harder.

Finish Date: Thursday, January 5, 2006
Pages: 390
Genre: Military/Aviation/Espionage Thriller
First Sentence: Dr. Brian Logan careened his Lexus past a frightened patient and shot out of the parking garage of the hospital that had just fired him.
Last Sentence: Taking a deep breath, she shifted her gaze to the traffic ahead, her smile broadening as she put the car in gear.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) It's unclear why anyone who's read a Nance novel is willing to board an airplane: Nance (Headwind, etc.), a veteran pilot, specializes in the scary side of flying, and his latest thriller delivers the suspense his fans want, even as its overcomplicated plot keeps it from reaching full altitude. Meridian Airlines is a major carrier plagued by greedy management and hostile employees; Brian Logan is a surgeon whose wife hemorrhaged to death aboard a Meridian flight, for which he blames the airline. As Logan prepares to fly to South Africa on Meridian, the only airline available U.S. government officials are growing concerned about the possibility of terrorists planning to use an airplane as a weapon escaping detection by flying under the guise of, say, an airplane diverted by mechanical troubles...
Favorite Quotes: NA