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From: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
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Subject: Re: Here's another book that needs identification:
Message-ID: <432@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 12:02:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 12:02:32 1985
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Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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Summary: 

> This book starts out about a professor whose wife has left him. He gets
> depressed one night, and tries to commit suicide. He's saved by his hat.
> His wife is a nurse, I think. 
> 
> Anyway, his sister comes to visit him (she's had a falling-out with her boss),
> and ends up living with him for a while. Then she gets kidnapped. The prof just
> about bankrupts himself trying to track her down, and finally pinpoints her
> location. Then he gets caught by the same guy who kidnapped her.
> 
> At this point, the story shift to another person. This guy officially doesn't
> exist -- he doesn't have the equivalent of a SS number. He's a burglar by 
> profession (and a good one, too). Then he breaks into this apartment, and 
> discovers that the tenant (a woman about 24-26) is trying to commit suicide.
> 
> [more plot summary]
>
> ***** Any ideas? It's annoying to recall so much of the plot, but not
>       the title or author. Someone suggested "The Steel Rat" (or something
>       like that). I haven't read that, but it doesn't sound familiar.
> 
> 				Thanx,
> 					Red


This book is called _Mindkiller_, by Spider Robinson.
-- 
William Rucklidge	University of Toronto Computing Services
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