Friday Memes: True Fiction by Lee Goldberg

 Happy Friday!

Book Beginnings is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader. She asks that the first sentence is posted along with the author and title of the book and the reader's initial thoughts on the sentence, the book, or anything else it inspires. 

Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower.org also provides a linky for sharing first lines and connecting with others. This meme asks that the chosen books be PG or marked as Mature if they are not. 

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda at Freda's Voice. This meme is currently on hiatus but many of us are still including a sentence from page 56 or from 56% of the ebook. Anne @ Head Full of Books is picking up the slack until Freda is ready to return. I think this link will get you to the correct place.

Beginning:

Honolulu. July 17. Noon. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time.

The assassin wore only a Speedo and his lean body was slathered with sunscreen that made him smell like baked coconut.

Friday 56:

He wasn't surprised to learn she had another job. There weren't enough authors coming through Seattle for her to make a living escorting them around.

"It's a lot like being an author escort," she said. "I feed the dogs, take them out, clean up their messes, and hope they won't hump my leg."

"I'm sensing a little hostility," Ian said.

This week I am spotlighting True Fiction by Lee Goldberg. I chose the audiobook for this one. It begins a new series starring the "unluckiest writer alive." I have recently become a big fan of the author's. I enjoy his humor and the fast-paced suspense in his stories. 

Here's the description from Amazon:

#1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Lee Goldberg hits the ground running in a breakneck thriller where truth and fiction collide for the unluckiest writer alive.

When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn’t an accident.

Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn’t imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done…and who is behind the plot. That makes him too dangerous to live.

Ian goes on the run, sweeping up an innocent bystander in his plight—Margo French, a dog walker and aspiring singer. They are pursued by assassins and an all-seeing global-intelligence network that won’t stop until Ian and Margo are dead. Ian has written thrillers like this before, but this time he doesn’t know how it’s going to end—or if he will be alive to find out.