Name that author

[jwgh]

On a busy European street, the killer serpentined through a crowd. He was a powerful man. Dark and potent. Deceptively agile. His muscles still felt hard from the thrill of his meeting.

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[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

I cheated and googled it, but I should have guessed. Not that I've read it, God knows, but still I should have guessed.

[jwgh]

I also like this:

Langdon did a double take. He remembered the CERN driver saying something about a huge machine buried in the earth. But--

"It is over eight kilometers in diameter... and twenty-seven kilometers long."

Langdon's head whipped around. "Twenty-seven kilometers?" He stared at the director and then turned and looked into the darkened tunnel before him. "This tunnel is twenty-seven kilometers long? That's... that's over sixteen miles!"

[pjamesharvey.livejournal.com]

The first quotation made me cringe a bit, but this one made me think the author is Dan Brown. I haven't touched his books, but I read a parargraph of of The Da Vinci Code over someone's shoulder. I am having trouble describing how amateurish and forced just that little snippet was.

[junquegrrl.livejournal.com]

exposition, much!


ARGH!

[jwgh]

"Please explain this thing you call the 'metric system'!"

[junquegrrl.livejournal.com]

exactly.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

"The field of particle physics," Kohler said, "has made some shocking discoveries lately—discoveries quite spiritual in implication. Leonardo was responsible for many of them."

Langdon studied CERN’s director, still trying to process the bizarre surroundings. "Spirituality and physics?" Langdon had spent his career studying religious history, and if there was one recurring theme, it was that science and religion had been oil and water since day one… archenemies… unmixable.

I'm guessing: WILLIAM SHATNER.