Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along by doing 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 & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
“Lewinter had lived through the moment a hundred times in his imagination, but it had never occurred to him that the guard wouldn’t speak English. He looked across the glass-topped table at the obstinate, Slavic face and had to fight back the frustration and fear welling up inside him.”
(~The Defection of A.J. Lewinter by Robert Littell, Paperback Edition, 1973)
[The blurb: Set in the early 1970s, the spy thriller–cum–black comedy begins when A.J. Lewinter, an eccentric American engineer specializing in nose cones for ballistic missiles, decides to defect to the Soviet Union. Such a high-level defection is unprecedented, and each side suspects the other of something fishy. This is one of the best novels by the American master of espionage thrillers. What makes Littell so great is that his books are
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays’ post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here and/or in The Purple Booker.
Interesting teaser. It does complicate things!
My TT from River Bones
Thanks for sharing- I’ll go to check it out. 🙂
As you’ll have gathered from the date, I’m horrendously behind in commenting and catching up… But this one does sound intriguing. You’ll doubtless have finished reading it by now!
Not yet (me too I am quite swamped in this period) but hopefully soon 🙂 thanks!