Kittling: Books

  First Line from Prologue: Loons and gulls arc in the vast, blue-gray sky over the island below .   Trouble Island is a stop-off for gangst...

  First Lines: Friday, June 2, 1905. Park Lane, London. Mrs. King laid out all the knives on the kitchen table .   Born into a world of con ...

  First Line from Prologue: " Imagine-- it's a year from now, 1941, or maybe even '42-- and Germany and the Axis have won the w...

  First Line: The buckskin's hooves landed with soft thuds on the sandy East Texas road .   It's 1931 when Texas Ranger Tom Bell rid...

First Line: On 24 August 1963, the newly arrived American ambassador to South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge, received a cable from Washingt...

First Line: Behold! The Big Easy in all its wicked splendor ! It took a while but wiseguy Frank Guidry, a loyal lieutenant for New Orle...

First Line: In the London borough of Stepney very little remained of Cardigan Street . It's 1944, and the Luftwaffe is making its f...

First Line: You're supposing that you hold in your hands a manuscript . Suffering from an untended gunshot wound, former New York C...

First Line: Near the foot of great Tahiti Nui, in the shadow of the dead volcano and beneath the hungry eyes of ancient gods, the young E...

First Line: The ancient road began at the Tower and ran east to west along a terrace of gravel . It's 1811, and from the ancient Ra...

First Line: " ...patient's 6000 cell count at intake," Dr. George Taylor wrote, "has dropped to 3500 ." Preside...