Tanner On Ice (Evan Tanner Suspense Thrillers) by Lawrence Block

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By Lawrence Block

Chilly conflict superspy Evan Tanner misplaced the facility to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So the place the heck has he been because the '70s? Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he by no means concept may occur while he walked right into a basement in Union urban, New Jersey, greater than 1 / 4 century in the past. Now he is unthawed and able to rumble, and his a little addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief," is joyful his favourite operative's lively back. Tanner woke up to another international, notwithstanding a few undesirable issues have remained an analogous . . . or gotten worse. Even sooner than he can totally acclimate himself to this complicated destiny, Tanner's off to Burma (which isn't Burma anymore) to pose as a monk, destabilize the govt., sidestep a deadly double-cross, and rescue a stunning prisoner. The world's nonetheless choked with conspiracy, corruption, greed, political chicanery—and appealing girls. So Tanner's again with a vengeance, with loads of misplaced time to make up for.

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You both probably look a lot older than you did in 1972, but I didn’t know you then, so you couldn’t prove it 28 LAWRENCE BLOCK to me. You know what they say, seeing is believing, and if I could just see something that would cut through this inner skepticism of mine . ” Wordless, Fischbinder took me by the arm and led me to a window. We were evidently on a high floor, facing south and west, and we had a good view of the city. And it was New York, of course, and there were buildings I recognized—the Chrysler building, the Empire State—but there were also plenty of buildings that had not been there the last I looked.

They needed new work all the time. But my gorge rose at the very thought. It was like putting a man who did custom coachwork on the assembly line at the Ford plant. Thanks, but I don’t think so. But you couldn’t ring an 800-number and order up a master’s or doctoral thesis, and that was the sort of work I preferred, anyway. With a thesis you could dig in and buckle down and really produce something. I might fabricate some of the footnotes—one doesn’t want to approach scholarship with too much in the way of reverence—but I did good work all the same.

I could explain it in Planoterrestrial terms, but I don’t expect it would convince you. Anyway, the real point of the Flat Earthers hasn’t got that much to do with the shape of the planet. It’s philosophical, and it’s about trusting one’s own interpretation of evidence and not . ” “And not swallowing everything the Establishment tells you. The only reason you believe the world is round—or spherical, really—is that’s what they told you in school. And the only reason I believe I spent twenty-five years colder than a welldigger’s ass in the Klondike is because you told me so.

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