07:00 – Another Ox-Tales: Fire (Profile Books) story over breakfast. Today was the turn of William Sutcliffe’s excellent Sandcastles: A Negotiation, which tells the story of father’s afternoon (actually only one hour), of looking after his two young children. The father is obviously on unfamiliar territory, and his woes are magnified with the marriage also going through a rocky patch at this time. Although Sandcastles: A Negotiation reads quite well as an encapsulated whole, this is actually an extract of a novel in progress. That means there’s more of this ‘happy family’ goodness to come from Sutcliffe. I can hardly wait.
22:00 – I’m still doing the final touches for my forethoughts post on it, but I’ve made a start on Mark T. Sullivan’s new thriller Triple Cross (St. Martin’s Press). I’m not a big thriller fan but fifty pages in, and I’ve got to admit that I’m enjoying what I’m reading so far. A slightly confusing explanation (for me) of a form of Stock Market racketeering, but putting this aside a very readable novel up to this point. I’m already loving one of the principle characters, security boss “Mickey” Hennessy, and there are a couple of others who are shaping up nicely.
Look out for my ‘forethoughts’ on Triple Cross (hopefully tomorrow), and a one copy giveaway post too (sorry it will be open to UK only). Meantime check out the chilling (spoof) hostage video on the Third Position Army website (the terrorist organisation featured in Triple Cross.
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