Tuesday Intros and Teaser

FFT is hosted by Diane of Bibliophile By the Sea where we share the opening paragraph of our current read to see if others would read the book based on that first paragraph.  Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

Jack Armstrong sat up in the secondhand hospital bed that had been wedged into a corner of the den in his home in Cleveland.  A father at 19, he and his wife, Lizzie, had conceived their second child when he'd been home on leave from the army.  Jack had been in the military for five years when the war in the Middle East started.  He'd survived his first tour in Afghanistan and earned a Purple Heart for taking one in the arm.  After that he'd weathered several tours of duty in Iraq, one of which included the destruction of his Humvee while he was inside.  That injury had won him his second Purple.  And he has a Bronze Star on top of that for rescuing three ambushed grunts from his unit and nearly getting killed in the process.  After all that, here he was, dying fat in his cheaply paneled den in Ohio's Rust Belt.

This is a departure from the author's usual suspenseful thrillers, but so far it has been great.  I am listening to this book.




Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.  Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!). Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR if they like your teasers!