It’s the end of the week and that means it’s time for this week’s First Lines Friday! Can you tell what I’m currently reading by the book’s opening lines?
First Lines Friday is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
(Click on the book cover for a link to their Goodreads page)
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This week’s lines:
“Ian Thomas despised North Korea.
In his thirty-eight years, he had lived in some dark places, but the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was hands down his least favorite country on Earth. A cult of personality masquerading as a nation-state—with nuclear weapons.”
Did you enjoy that preview? Can you guess where it’s from? If you guessed…..
Command and Control
by David Bruns and J.R. Olson
You’re Correct!!
Blurb
As a string of unexplained attacks push superpowers to the brink, the clock is ticking toward the start of World War III.
Don Riley, head of the CIA’s Emerging Threats Group, has never seen anything like this.
Riley and his team are tasked with identifying national security threats before they become tomorrow’s bad news. But shortly after an Iranian vessel delivers a surprise attack to a US Navy Warship in the Arabian Gulf, a series of seemingly unrelated attacks crop up around the globe.
The US military is rapidly being drawn into full-fledged shooting wars on multiple fronts. Now Riley must sift through the layers of deception in time to discover who—or what—is behind these events…
…before the clock reaches zero hour.
