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Captain Sean O'Sullivan lifted the blackout curtain. A burst of dull light grayed the room. Christ, he thought, doesn't the sun ever shine in London. He heard planes droning overhead toward the English Channel but he could not see them through the thick fog. He wondered if his brother, Tim, was flying today. - Armageddon (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK They call me Mac. The name's unimportant. You can best identify me by the six chevrons, three up and three down, and by that row of hashmarks. Thirty years in the United States Marine Corps. - Battle Cry (pt. 1, prologue) [Books (First Lines)] The airplane plip-plopped down the runway to a halt before the big sign: WELCOME TO CYPRUS. Mark Parker looked out of the window and in the distance he could see the jagged wonder of the Peak of Five Fingers of the northern coastal range. In an hour or so he would be driving through the pass to Kyrenia. He stepped into the aisle, straightened out his necktie, rolled down his sleeves, and slipped into his jacket. "Welcome to Cyprus, welcome to Cyprus . . ." It ran through his head. It was from Othello, he thought, but the full quotation slipped his mind. - Exodus [Books (First Lines)] Journal Entry--August 1939 This is the first entry in my journal. I cannot help but feel that the war will begin in a few weeks. If the lessons of the past three years are any barometer, something awesome is apt to happen if Germany makes a successful invasion. what with three and a half million Jews in Poland. Perhaps the tensions of the moment are making me overdramatic. My journal may prove completely worthless and a waste of time. Yet, as a historian, I must satisfy the impulse to record what is happening around me. ALEXANDER BRANDEL - Mila 18 [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The Prime Minister's cottage, a remnant of the former German colony, sat unobtrusively in the midst of the outsized defense complex on the northern end of Tel Aviv. Midnight had come and gone. The stream of callers faded to a trickle, then halted. - Mitla Pass [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The corporal cadet stepped out of the guard hut and squinted out over the field. A shadowy figure ran through the knee-high grass toward him. The guard lifted a pair of binoculars. The man, half stumbling, carried a single battered suitcase. He waved and gasped a greeting in Polish. - QB VII [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The day was balmy. That certain magic of Copenhagen and the Tivoli Gardens had Michael Nordstrom all but tranquilized. - Topaz (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Marsh McKittrick's Buick was passed through the gates of the vast Government complex outside Langley. He eased onto the turnpike, then sped toward Washington, touching his briefcase nervously and looking into the rearview mirror. Two cars filled with heavily armed guards followed closely. Sanderson Hooper beside him and Michael Nordstrom in the rear seat remained speechless. - Topaz (pt. 1, prologue) [Books (First Lines)] I recall with utter clarity the first great shock of my life. A scream came from the cottage next door. I rushed into the room, as familiar as my own home. The Larkin kids, Conor, Liam and Brigid, all hovered above the alcove in which a mattress of bog fir bedded old Kilty. They stood in gape-mouthed awe. - Trinity [Books (First Lines)]
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