Red Leather Disco Pants and Ken Follett’s Whiteout: a recent GO Bus encounter

What do you find when you read over someone’s shoulder or as I tried to do, across the aisle of the GO Bus? For me it’s usually self-help, religion or steamy romance. Don’t people read cowboy novels anymore? I tried to memorize a line from page 328 of someone’s book on the #10 Beeline Express that had the chapter heading “London Bridge” but I can’t quite pull it out right now. Something about the “same swarthy man”…I also didn’t get much of the Ken Follett novel on the GO Bus. He kept turning the book away from me and towards the woman beside him and the one standing in the aisle, the woman with the red leather disco pants kept blocking my view – jostled by the motion of the bus – like the wind and the weather behind it?

Here’s the synopsis from www.ken-follett.com if you’re interested:
The story ...
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.
As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company’s director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus – but he isn’t the only one: His grown children, who have come to spend Christmas, have their eyes on the money it will bring.
Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it for a client already waiting – though what the client really has in mind is something that will shock them all.
As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks – jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries – crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge ...