Author Anne Louise Bannon presents her book, “that Old Cloak and Dagger Routine,” in an online event Wednesday, December 8, 5 to 6 p.m.
Part of Bannon’s Operation Quickline series, the story is set in September 1982, when Lisa Wycherly, broke and desperate, thought she was signing on as simply a secretary for wealthy freelance writer Sid Hackbirn. Okay, it was a live-in position, which was weird. But even though Lisa believed sex belonged in marriage, and Sid believed in free love and slept around, she went for it.
However, Lisa soon noticed that things around Sid’s house were a little odd, and the oddities were a little too planned to be mere eccentricity. Sid had warned her that he could be dangerous to know. Lisa stayed on only to find that Sid was really an undercover operative for a super-secret organization called Operation Quickline, and that she had been recruited, as well. Soon she was ditching tails, picking up packages, and fighting off bad guys.
As much as her life had been turned upside down, she was about to turn Sid’s life upside down, too. And he had no idea it was coming.
Anne Louise Bannon is a Southern California writer and freelance journalist who tells some stories based on fact and some based in fancy, as she says in her website, https://annelouisebannon.com.
“I have a grown daughter who is self-supporting and calls me regularly,” Bannon writes. “I make soap, which I also sell. My husband and I make the things most sane people buy. He makes wine and roasts his own coffee beans. I make some of our clothes, bread and the soap. I also dabble in cheesemaking on those rare weekends I have some time. We love to eat, taste and write about wine, look at art and read. I mostly read mysteries, a little fantasy here and there and I’m just starting to get interested in romance. And I read news and information.”
To register for the online event, visit www.cityofpasadena.net/library/calendar and click on the December 8, 5 p.m. tab, or sign up at https://pasadena.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5077.
For more information, call (626) 744-4066.