Tuesday Intro/Teaser

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea every Tuesday. To participate share the opening paragraph or two of a book you've decided to read based on that paragraph. Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

"If you reach the camp before me, I'll let you live," the Solider said. It was the same chance he allowed them all. The fairest judgment for their crimes against his people. The young man lay sniveling in the sand at his feet. Tears had always disgusted the Solider. They were the lowest from of expression, the physical symptom of psychological weakness. The Solider lifted his head and looked across the black desert to the camp's border lights. The dark sky was an explosion of stars, patched here and there by shifting cloud. He sucked cold desert air into his lungs.

Never, Never by James Patterson and Candice Fox
(Detective Harriet Blue #1)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker


"Because right now your apartment is crawling with Forensics officers. Patrol have blockaded the street. They've impounded your car, Detective Blue," he said. "You're not going home."