Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Teaser Tuesday: Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week my teaser comes from Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone. I received this eARC through Minotaur Books' eGalley program. Here is the description of this August 20 release:
Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk now works as a private contractor, tracking down and recovering children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. He only has one rule: he won’t touch stranger abduction cases. He’s still haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter years ago when she was just a child, still unsolved, and stranger kidnappings hit too close to home.

Until, that is, six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears from her parents’ hotel room in Paris, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can spend years in a French jail for his actions during a past case, or he can work with them now to find Lindsay Sorkin. So, Simon sets out in pursuit of the missing child and the truth behind her disappearance. But Lindsay’s captors did not leave an easy trail, and following it will take Simon across the continent, through the ritziest nightclubs and the seediest back alleys, into a terrifying world of international intrigue and dark corners of his past he’d rather never face again.

With lightning-fast pacing and a twist behind every turn, Douglas Corleone's Good as Gone is a gripping race against the clock for a young girl with her life on the line and a man who has nothing left to lose.
Teaser:
Davignon stepped out of the living room and returned a moment later with a thin manila folder. He dropped it in my lap, and remained standing next to the sofa across from me. He didn't remove his jacket.

14 comments:

  1. I just heard about this oen last week. Sounds really good! My teaser: Madame Bovary

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  2. Hmm, sounds tense and quite the thriller. Nice cover too!

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  3. Sounds like an interesting take. Thanks for visiting.

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  4. That one sounds suspenseful! Great teaser! Thanks for stopping by!

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  5. Ooh, love stories like this! Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.

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  6. Wonder what's going on. I get a sense of espionage wafting in.

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  7. Well, I guess he's not staying. :) But wonder whats in the folder. :) Thank you!

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  8. Good teaser, Kathy! Enjoy the story, and thanks for visiting my blog (bookclublibrarian.com).

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  9. One can guess only... there's suspense there.
    Thanks for stopping by my blog.
    Kero

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  10. Ooooo! Sounds Dramatic. The whole leaing the jacket on things makes me think that the speaker is in some deep crap! Great pick, and thanks for stopping by!!!

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  11. Hmmm. That's interesting! Great choice! Thanks for visiting our TT!

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