Monday, May 2, 2022

Call Me a Cab

 

This one was really fun, I enjoyed it. Back in 1977, Donald Westlake decided to try his hand at writing a suspense story without any crime in it. The result was "Call Me a Cab". 

Taxi cab driver Tom Fletcher picks up Katherine Scott on her way to the airport. Katherine is flying out to L.A. to give her boyfriend, Barry, her final answer as to whether or not she'll marry him. She's kept the poor guy on the hook for two years, dilly dallying. (Barry is literally a saint). She's wavering in the cab, telling Tom she doesn't know what to do and then she asks him what it would cost her to have him drive her out to California so she can have more time to think about it (because two years isn't enough, I guess). Tom thinks she's joking, but she's not. After getting the okay from his boss (his father) and packing a bag, Tom and Katherine are off to Los Angeles.

Their cross country drive is lots of fun. They run into some characters. The story was very suspenseful. Will she say yes or no to Barry? Are the two of them falling for each other? The ending was kind of perfect. I had a hard time putting it down. 

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