tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781848331984255938.post8852909867440308645..comments2024-03-26T15:34:54.783-04:00Comments on A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore...: Teaser TuesdaysKatherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108897586586146730noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781848331984255938.post-17272425165459255492011-07-20T17:12:38.509-04:002011-07-20T17:12:38.509-04:00Today I am 20 pages from finishing Passage of Arms...Today I am 20 pages from finishing Passage of Arms, an early novel by Eric Ambler. Since almost any sentence in this gripping suspense novel could be a spoiler, I will give the first and third sentences from page 3:<br /><br />"All that Mr Wright, the rubber-estate manager, ever knew of the business was that an army patrol had ambushed a band of terrorists within a mile of his bungalow, that five months later his Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, had reported the theft of three tarpaulins from the curing sheds, and that three years after that someone had removed the wheels from an old scooter belonging to one of his children...In Malaya, at that time, there were more important facts to ponder and attempt to correlate."Judy Kruegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632346091869688862noreply@blogger.com