First Line of a Novel (5 of 11)

Since the Super Bore is next weekend (Does anyone outside of Phoenix care about the freaking Arizona Cardinals? Though, I'd still love to see them beat the Pittsburgh Steelers!), we thought we'd go with the first lines of Thomas Harris' 1975 terror novel "Black Sunday" which was made into a film that was essentially a "Towering Inferno" rip-off:

"Night fell as the airport taxi rattled along the six miles of coastal road into Beirut. From the back seat, Dahlia Iyad watched the Mediterranean surf fade from white to gray in the last light. She was thinking about the American. She would have to answer questions about him."

Hmmm....a paperback version of this novel has been on my mom's bookshelf for some 30 years, and I have yet to read it! Maybe, it is because it has that old paperback book smell.........


NOTICE: We were going to write seven blog entries today both here and on our sister blog "The Daily Vampire," but there are fish to feed in the aquarium. So to speak!