Excerpt from A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

"Those ice cubes nearly took my eye out."

"Why did the papers not predict this?"

"Surely it's a sign of the apocalypse."

"I thought it was raining bullets. Thought I was back in Normandy."

"You're in Manhattan, darling. You're safe here."

I turned to see the woman who had tried to calm the shaken former soldier, but people had started crowding the doors, ready to exit at Seventy-seventh.

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