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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - [Fiction : Reality] You couldn't look at her and not be proud, Red Wegener told himself. The Coast Guard cutter Panache was one of a kind, a design mistake of sorts, but she was his. Her hull was painted the same gleaming white found on an iceberg--except for the orange stripe on the bow that designated the ship as part of the United States Coast Guard. - Clear and Present Danger (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK There was a university somewhere in the Midwest, Jack had once heard on the radio, which had an instrument package designed to go inside a tornado. - Debt of Honor (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The FBI's emergency command center on the fifth floor of the Hoover building is an odd-shaped room, roughly triangular and surprisingly small with room for only fifteen of so people to bump shoulders. Number sixteen to arrive, tieless and wearing casual cloths, was Deputy Assistant Director Daniel E. Murray. - Executive Orders (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour. - Patriot Games [Books (First Lines)] John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed pilots, and he knew the statistics as well as any of them, but he still didn't like the idea of crossing the ocean on a twin-engine airliner. - Rainbow Six (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK "When do you start, Jack?" Cathy asked in the quiet of their bed. - Red Rabbit (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] They moved swiftly, silently, with purpose, under a crystalline, star-filled night in western Siberia. They were Muslims, though one could scarcely have known it from their speech, which was Russian, though inflected with the singsong Azerbaijani accent that wrongly struck the senior members of the engineering staff as entertaining. The three of them had just completed a complex task in the truck and train yards, the opening of hundreds of loading valves. Ibrahim Tolkaze was their leader, though he was not in front. - Red Storm Rising (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] "So, who were his enemies?" Lieutenant Colonel Shablikov asked. - The Bear and the Dragon (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Business was being conducted. All kinds of business. Everyone there knew it. Everyone there was a part of it. Everyone there needed it. And yet everyone there was in one way or another dedicated to stopping it. For every person there in the St. George Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, the dualism was a normal part of life. - The Cardinal of the Kremlin (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The Red October Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Artic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy. Five layers of wool and oilskin enclosed him. A dirty harbor tug pushed his submarine's bow around to the north, facing down the channel. - The Hunt for Red October [Books (First Lines)] Arnold van Damm sprawled back in his executive swivel chair with all the elegance of a rag doll tossed into a corner. Jack had never seen him wear a coat except in the presence of the presence of the President, and not always then. At formal affairs that required black tie, Ryan wondered if Arnie needed a Secret Service agent standing by with a gun. - The Sum of All Fears (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK MAY He'd never know why he stopped. Kelly pulled his Scout over to the shoulder without a conscious thought. She hadn't had her hand out soliciting a ride. She's just been standing at the side of the road, watching the cars speed past in a spray of highway grit and a wake of fumes. Her posture was that of a hitchhiker, one knee locked, the other bent. Her clothes were clearly well used and a backpack was loosely slung over one shoulder. Her tawny, shoulder-length hair moved about in the rush of air from the traffic. Her face showed nothing, but Kelly didn't see that until he was already pressing his right foot on the brake pedal and angling onto the loose rock of the shoulder. - Without Remorse (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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