Teaser Tuesday, July 6

On Tuesdays, it's our habit round these parts to join in the Teaser Tuesday Tradition of Miz B at Should Be Reading. If you want to join in, just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page on your blog (or in the comments of the Should Be Reading blog)
* 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!

Here's the book I started over the 4th of July weekend:

He didn't touch politics, he asserted in a typical civil servant's denial that administration is support of a policy. Insisting that it was "not heroic to flee," he argued that it was necessary to work with the Germans to restore the necessary order for survival.

from  Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 by Robert O. Paxton.

Here's the book I actually read over the weekend:

Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith & Wesson stuck under the driver's seat. No matter what went down, Connie was covered.

from the newly-paperbacked Finger-lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich.

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Previously on Teaser Tuesday: I finished Hardball, the new(ish) V.I. Warshawski novel. Vic was her typical prickly, dogged self and the plot dense and filling. Very satisfying. The one thing I do not get is, after all these years, you'd think Bobby Mallory would once--once--give Vic the benefit of the doubt. Does her track record mean nothing? I guess it's like Spiderman and the editor of the Daily Bugle. It's a convention. But it's become annoying to me.