Thanks to Katy at A Few More Pages for hosting this meme. To participate, share the first line or two of the book you are currently reading and, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line.
And we’re back to Lee Child and Jack Reacher on audio. Although the 8th in the series, this one’s a prequel, a flashback to the time when Reacher was still an active MP in the army. In fact, it’s the new year of 1990, and the wall has just come down and the fall of Soviet Russia is bringing change to military structures. The Reacher family also suffers a private tragedy, and private revelations.
It begins:
As serious as a heart attack. Maybe those were Ken Kramer’s last words, like a final explosion of panic in his mind as he stopped breathing and dropped into the abyss. He was out of line, in every way there was, and he knew it. He was where he shouldn’t have been, with someone he shouldn’t have been with, carrying something he should have kept in a safer place.
No surprise here: I’m loving it.
What are you reading this weekend?
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That is a beginning full of mystery, there. Fantastic!
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Wow! Certainly an attention-grabber! And it brings up all kinds of questions.
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I haven’t read Lee Child’s earlier Jack Reacher books, just his latest 3.
I’m inbetween books at the moment. I’ve got to make up my mind which book to read next!