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It was cold at 6:40 in the morning of a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. - The Day of the Jackal (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The castaway would have been dead before sundown but for the sharp eyes of an Italian seaman called Mario. - The Devil's Alternative [Books (First Lines)] There were no stars that night on the bush airstrip, nor any moon; just the West African darkness wrapping round the scattered groups like warm, wet velvet. The cloud cover was lying hardly off the tops of the iroko trees, and the waiting men prayed it would stay a while longer to shield them from the bombers. - The Dogs of War (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded. - The Fourth Protocol (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK There was a thin robin's-egg-blue dawn coming up over Tel Aviv when the intelligence analyst finished typing his report. - The Odessa File [Books (First Lines)]
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