Don't Look Down

Movie director Lucy Armstrong and Green Beret captain J. T. Wilder don't exactly get along at their first meeting on the set of the movie Don't Look Down. Lucy, a director of dog food commercials in New York, has come to the Savannah swamps to finish up the last four days of shooting -- only to discover that her ex-husband is the stunt director, her sister seems to be on drugs, and the stars are nutty egotists. Lucy chalks this up to the usual movie production chaos; then the script for this so-called romantic comedy takes a mysterious and abrupt right turn into action-adventure land -- complete with helicopters, Navy SEALs, and exploding cars! To complicate things further, the CIA contacts J.T. and lets him in on a secret: A terrorist with the Russian Mob is using the movie as a money-laundering scheme and clearly has his own reasons for the script change. Then the body count starts to rise...

I haven't read the book yet- I'm saving it for my April 20th flight to Phoenix and the Desert Dreams conference. I can't wait! And let me tell you how hard it's been to resist the call of the bookshelf behind me.

If you want a good laugh to start your morning, you have to become a Cherrybomb, ie a person dedicated to reading the He Wrote, She Wrote blog. If the book is anything like their blog posts, I'll be chuckling across the country. If you get the chance to see The Bob and Jenny Show on the road, don't forget to ask for Moot.