Nooo, I don' t mean Nancy Pearl. Reading Kirkus today (8/15 issue, I'm catching up, here), and I come across not one, but TWO instances of action librarians in fiction!
First up we have Larry Beinhart's The Librarian, due out in October, a "barn-burning political thriller" about a college librarian who's hired to catalogue a billionaire's papers, and suddenly has hired killers on his tail because he's discovered some big, nasty secret. Problem is, he doesn't know what he knows. (And if Beinhart's name isn't familiar to you-- his American Hero got turned into the movie "Wag the Dog.")
And secondly, we have Sam Hill's (I swear, that's the name given here) Buzz Riff, about a former merc-turned-"world's most adrenaline-addicted librarian." Writes Kirkus, "Interesting people plot nonstop to hurt each other in interesting ways."
And who says librarians don't lead exciting lives? (Well... at least in fiction. ;) )
Posted by gris at September 7, 2004 12:55 PM