"Simon Hawke - Sorcerer 1 - The Reluctant Sorcerer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hawke Simon)

CHAPTER
ONE

"It's alive! It's alive!"

"Darling... come to bed."

"Just a minute," replied Marvin Brewster, staring raptly
at the television set where Colin Clive, in the role of Dr.
Victor Frankenstein, was gripped in a paroxysm of unholy
glee as his creation twitched to life on the laboratory table.

"Darling..." Her voice was low and throaty with a
British accent. "I'm waiting..."

"Ummm." Brewster didn't turn around. If he had, he
would have seen a sight that would have reduced most men
to drooling idiots. His fiancee. Dr. Pamela Fairbum, was
standing in the bedroom doorway, dressed in nothing but a
slinky negligee that was so sheer, it looked like a soft mist
enveloping her lush, voluptuous curves. She stood in a pose
of calculated seduction, one long and lovely leg bent at the
knee, one arm stretched out above her, pressed against the
door frame, her long auburn hair worn loose and cascading
down to her ample, perfumed cleavage....

Whoa, wait a minute. Let me catch my breath.

Sorry about that. Narrators are only human too, you
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know. Okay, now where were we? Oh, right. This gor-
geous, incredibly desirable woman is exuding premarital
lust all over the place and that fool, Brewster, is simply
sitting there and watching a monster movie on TV. Any
other red-blooded male would know exactly what to do,
right? You betcha. Hit that remote control and make a
beeline for the bedroom. Any normal, sensible man hearing
that incredibly sultry and seductive voice would turn around,
take one look, and experience the hormonal equivalent of a
nuclear meltdown. (And considering how beautiful Dr. Pamela
Fairbum was, a lot of women would, as well.) However,
Dr. Marvin Brewster was not exactly normal. Or sensible.
That is to say, he was incredibly intelligentтАФa genius, in
factтАФbut he didn't have a lot of street smarts.

Nor was this just any movie. To Marvin Brewster, it was
the movie, the one that had the single most significant