Two for One

Savvy readers of this blog know that I run a series on the importance of first lines and last lines. It was due to these series that I started to recognize the need for a series on passages about mornings. It seemed as though every author loved to say things about the morning. Today we have a first line (one that should probably be in the "good first line" subcategory) combined with line that should also be in the series on the morning.

There was a thin robin’s-egg-blue dawn coming up over Tel Aviv when the intelligence analyst finished typing his report.

Forsyth, Frederick - The Odessa File

Perhaps not the most exciting first line, but it does make me anxious to see what else the author has to offer.