12/28/04
Booksigning!
Hot Target, hot off the press!
Burlington, Massachusetts
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 -- Tonight!
7:30 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
98 Middlesex Turnpike (across from the Burlington Mall)
Burlington, MA 01803
Store Phone: 781-273-3871
Join me to celebrate today's release of HOT TARGET!
Talk & Signing! Giant raffle basket filled
with cool prizes!
Directions: Take Route 95/128 to exit
32B/32A for Rt. 3/Middlesex Turnpike. Take Exit 32B for Middlesex
Turnpike, toward Arlington/Burlington. At end of exit ramp, go RIGHT
(toward the Burlington Mall). Stay left -- you'll see the B&N on the
left side of Middlesex Turnpike. (You might have to go past it and do a
U-turn to get into the parking lot!) Note: If you pass the
Burlington Mall on your right, you've gone too far!
I hope to see you there!
Today's final countdown page features the Hot Target extra! In the back of this book, there is a special short story featuring former Navy SEAL Sam Starrett and his wife, former FBI agent Alyssa Locke.
Here's an excerpt -- the first few paragraphs of this latest short story:
Sam Starrett's daughter had finally surrendered and fallen asleep when the telephone rang.
He closed her bedroom door as silently as possible and raced down the hall toward the living room, where he'd last seen the cordless phone.
Yesterday, three and a half year old Haley had missed her nap and their dinner had been loud and far more tearful than dinosaur-shaped mac and cheese warranted. Apparently, without an afternoon rest, having to choose between green beans or peas as a side dish was a tragic dilemma of astronomical proportions.
Sam, always good at creative solutions, thought he'd solved the problem by heating up both vegetables.
At which point Haley wept inconsolably because the spoon she wanted to use was in the dishwasher.
It was then that Sam understood. As a former Navy SEAL and one of the top counterterrorism experts currently working in the private sector, he recognized that he was caught in a dread no win scenario. He realized that even if he hand-washed the spoon, there would be something wrong with the fork, or the color of the napkin, or maybe even the brand of parmesan cheese he and his wife Alyssa kept in their fridge.
It was obvious that the real problem wasn't with the peas or the spoon or the cheese. Haley missed her mother -- Sam's ex-wife, Mary Lou -- and that, plus lack of nap, had locked them into orbit around the Planet of Inconsolable Unhappiness.
Sam could totally relate. He, himself, was struggling hard to keep from joining his daughter there because Mary Lou wasn't the only one out of town. Just over a week ago, Alyssa had gone OUTCONUS.
From the book HOT TARGET
By Suzanne Brockmann
A Ballantine Book
Copyright 2005 by Suzanne Brockmann
Excerpt copyright 2004 by Suzanne Brockmann
Check my APPEARANCES
page for my Hot Target tour schedule,
January 7 - 12th,
and my TARGET: Tampa weekend party
from January 14 - 17th, 2005!
Love,
