Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!wjr From: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Here's another book that needs identification: Message-ID: <432@utcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 12:02:32 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.432 Posted: Thu Feb 14 12:02:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 13:04:12 EST References: <578@topaz.ARPA> <776@ukma.UUCP> Reply-To: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge) Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 30 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 {decvax,ihnp4,utcsrgv,{allegra,linus}!utzoo}!utcs!wjr GISO - Garbage In, Serendipity Out. This message brought to you with the aid of the Poslfit Committee.