OUT TODAY! This is pub date for Michelle Gagnon's "The Gatekeeper." Her very cool heroine, FBI Special Agent Kelly Jones, is up against biker gangs, skinheads, and border militias in Michelle's latest thriller. I waded into similar territory in "Illegal," so I'm anxious to check it out. I'll be heading over to the Mystery Bookstore in Westwood forthwith -- if not sooner -- to buy a copy.
RIDLEY'S ON THE ROAD: Here's a shot taken yesterday of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and their "Swordmobile" in New Jersey, a small state located in the general vicinity of Delaware. Dave and Ridley are on the road flogging "Peter and the Sword of Mercy."
Today at 5 p.m., they'll be at Chester County Books in West Chester, PA. I might be mistaken, but I think Dave worked for a newspaper in that burg about 35 years ago.
MIAMI BOOK FAIR IN TWO WEEKS: I love Miami Book Fair International. It's a week-long celebration of books with more than 350 authors and several hundred thousand readers...or at least browsers who like to eat funnel cakes and corn arepas.
I'll be doing a panel Saturday November 14 with Jeff Lindsay, author of the "Dexter" serial killer novels and Richard Belzer of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and the author of "I Am Not a Psychic."
IN BASEBALL NEWS: FIRST, THE NATIONAL LEAGUE: As a Giants' fan, I loved seeing the Dodgers lose to the Phillies. If it weren't for schadenfreude, I'd have no joy at all.
...AND IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE: As for my friends who are Yankees fans, if it were 1939, you'd probably be rooting for Germany against Poland.
WHAT'S IN A NAME? I like Graham Zug, the Penn State walk-on who caught 3 TD passes in the whomping of Michigan last week. But...can't the scribblers come up with a better nickname than "Amish Lightning?"
Paul Levine
