Teaser Tuesday 86: Longshot

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few “teaser” sentences from somewhere in the book.
* 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 and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!


Two teasers this week from the same book, one I read over the weekend and quite enjoyed. The first two sentences are between the book’s main character—a writer—and his agent. The second teaser is from a scene in which the narrator and another character go to meet someone at an old boathouse.

"Impulse will kill you one of these days."

I should have listened to him, but I didn’t.
(pg 20)

* * * * *

He turned and took a step towards the far-end balcony, the ancient floorboards
creaking underfoot.

There was a white envelope lying on the floor about halfway to the balcony and, saying perhaps it was a message, he went towards it and bent to pick it up, and with a fearsome crack a whole section of the floor gave way under his weight and shot him, shouting, into the dock beneath.
(pg 195)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Longshot by Dick Francis
Genre: Mystery

His agent has always known that John Kendall, writer of travel guides to harsh terrains, is impulsive. But taking an assignment because he needs money hardly seems a rash act, and off to rural England Kendall goes to interview his subject, a successful racehorse trainer.

Soon enough, however, Kendall realizes that he must draw upon all his ingenuity to complete his book. In fact, the perils described in his survival manuals pale next to the dangers in rural England. "Impulse will kill you one of these days," his agent had warned. Kendall should have listened, but he didn’t—not by a longshot...