Head Over Heels (2006)
Head Over Heels
“So when it rousted him from a deep sleep late Friday morning, he reached over to the nightstand and slapped at the off button on the alarm clock, thinking that was where the sound originated. The phone rang again, and he pushed up onto his elbow. “Oh, for—” He snatched the phone off the nightstand, flipped down the mouthpiece, and punched the talk button. “Yeah!”
“Coop? Steve Parrish here. Did Margery get hold of you?”
“No, why? Has she been trying?”
“For two days now. She called me first thing... this morning to find out if I knew where you were. Damn, big guy, isn’t the purpose of having a cell phone to make yourself available anytime, anywhere?”
“That’s the popular theory, anyhow.” Coop tossed his pillow against the headboard and sat up, resting his back against it. Steve was his literary agent and Margery Kellerman his editor. He’d spent thirteen years seeing every hot spot in the world, courtesy of the U.S. Marines, and had kept journals of his experiences as point man in a reconnaissance squad in C Company of the Second Recon Battalion.MoreLess
“Coop? Steve Parrish here. Did Margery get hold of you?”
“No, why? Has she been trying?”
“For two days now. She called me first thing... this morning to find out if I knew where you were. Damn, big guy, isn’t the purpose of having a cell phone to make yourself available anytime, anywhere?”
“That’s the popular theory, anyhow.” Coop tossed his pillow against the headboard and sat up, resting his back against it. Steve was his literary agent and Margery Kellerman his editor. He’d spent thirteen years seeing every hot spot in the world, courtesy of the U.S. Marines, and had kept journals of his experiences as point man in a reconnaissance squad in C Company of the Second Recon Battalion.MoreLess
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