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THE BLOG IN THE BROWN PAPER WRAPPER
MEET MY CHARACTER
LEE CARRUTHERS
I’d like to thank D. J. Adamson for inviting me to this blog hop to introduce my heroine to you. If you missed meeting her character, Lillian Dove, go to her website: website:http://www.djadamson.com/blog
The Spider Catchers has been through a number of drafts, so I no longer remember where I met Lee Carruthers except to say that she’s from down east in Maine. She’s the third generation of her family to work in intelligence. Her grandmother ran a safe house and escape route in Paris for OSS during World War II. Her father sold counterfeit piastres on the Hong Kong black market to fund Agency projects in the last days of the Vietnam War. She has a MA in Islamic Civilization from Yale and has been a CIA analyst for ten years, most of the time stationed in Paris. Her job has been chasing black money - terrorist funding and the profits of criminal activity.
She’s a loner, the result of a difficult childhood. Her mother was an alcoholic. She adored her father and brought herself up to be just like him. He gave her first Glock on her sixteenth birthday and taught her how to fire and maintain it. Her heart broke when she discovered he had a second family in Falls Church, Virginia, including a daughter her age with fluffy blonde curls and a face like a little kitten. This left her even more alone as well as conflicted about love and men. She doesn’t much like blondes, either.
She has a skill set most analysts don’t acquire, because her boss keeps sending her in harm’s way on missions like her adventure in Morocco I described in The Spider Catchers. She has enjoyed that until recently, but the impossibility of wiping out either terrorist funding or arms and drug smuggling or human trafficking has left her world weary and a bit cynical. In a recent performance evaluation, she was called “impertinent, insubordinate, and impossible.” He left out contrary, possibly because it didn’t start with an ‘I’.
Note: Because I don’t know how to add an illustration to my Plain Brown Wrapper blog site, I can’t post their wonderful covers. I apologize to them and promise to develop a very sexy blog just as soon as I get Dead in Dubai into editing.
Now on the blog links, hop to meet the characters in the novels written by Dietrich Kalteis and Christine Finlayson.
Dietrich is a writer living in West Vancouver, Canada. His debut novel Ride the Lightning was published by ECW Press in April 2014, and many of his short stories have appeared in publications online and in print.
Book: Ride the Lightning
Link: www.dietrichkalteis.blogspot.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/Ride-Lightning-D...
Christine Finlayson is an author, editor, and former water scientist. Her debut mystery novel, Tip of a Bone, came out in 2013 from Adventure Publications — and she’s now writing two novels of suspense, both mysteriously featuring the Columbia River.
Christine’s website is at christinefinlayson.com.
Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Tip-Bone-Christ...
LEE CARRUTHERS
I’d like to thank D. J. Adamson for inviting me to this blog hop to introduce my heroine to you. If you missed meeting her character, Lillian Dove, go to her website: website:http://www.djadamson.com/blog
The Spider Catchers has been through a number of drafts, so I no longer remember where I met Lee Carruthers except to say that she’s from down east in Maine. She’s the third generation of her family to work in intelligence. Her grandmother ran a safe house and escape route in Paris for OSS during World War II. Her father sold counterfeit piastres on the Hong Kong black market to fund Agency projects in the last days of the Vietnam War. She has a MA in Islamic Civilization from Yale and has been a CIA analyst for ten years, most of the time stationed in Paris. Her job has been chasing black money - terrorist funding and the profits of criminal activity.
She’s a loner, the result of a difficult childhood. Her mother was an alcoholic. She adored her father and brought herself up to be just like him. He gave her first Glock on her sixteenth birthday and taught her how to fire and maintain it. Her heart broke when she discovered he had a second family in Falls Church, Virginia, including a daughter her age with fluffy blonde curls and a face like a little kitten. This left her even more alone as well as conflicted about love and men. She doesn’t much like blondes, either.
She has a skill set most analysts don’t acquire, because her boss keeps sending her in harm’s way on missions like her adventure in Morocco I described in The Spider Catchers. She has enjoyed that until recently, but the impossibility of wiping out either terrorist funding or arms and drug smuggling or human trafficking has left her world weary and a bit cynical. In a recent performance evaluation, she was called “impertinent, insubordinate, and impossible.” He left out contrary, possibly because it didn’t start with an ‘I’.
Note: Because I don’t know how to add an illustration to my Plain Brown Wrapper blog site, I can’t post their wonderful covers. I apologize to them and promise to develop a very sexy blog just as soon as I get Dead in Dubai into editing.
Now on the blog links, hop to meet the characters in the novels written by Dietrich Kalteis and Christine Finlayson.
Dietrich is a writer living in West Vancouver, Canada. His debut novel Ride the Lightning was published by ECW Press in April 2014, and many of his short stories have appeared in publications online and in print.
Book: Ride the Lightning
Link: www.dietrichkalteis.blogspot.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/Ride-Lightning-D...
Christine Finlayson is an author, editor, and former water scientist. Her debut mystery novel, Tip of a Bone, came out in 2013 from Adventure Publications — and she’s now writing two novels of suspense, both mysteriously featuring the Columbia River.
Christine’s website is at christinefinlayson.com.
Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Tip-Bone-Christ...
