Fictional People I'd Like to Be

Fiction: The Empress File by John Sandford

Fiction is my reading of choice. Mysteries, Suspense and Thrillers are my order of preference. I love envisioning myself as the detective solving a complicated murder, or the everyman who gets pulled against his will into some government conspiracy.

Some characters are so smart, so beguiling, so naughty that I just want to live their life. For me, such a character is Joe Kidd. He's an accomplished painter, but his day job is thievery. He's a computer hacker extraordinaire, and a genius at making complicated plans to support his day job. The price he pays is usually in the form of broken bones. His redeeming grace is that he only robs bad guys.

He lives a pretty enviable life...except for that broken bone thing.