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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.
Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or 
so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.
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MY FRIDAY 56
They’re finally putting that gold-plated spit kit of your to work, huh? What have you got?”
“I can’t say.”
CNN just broke a story about things going to hell between Argentina and Great Britain in the Antarctic. Are you getting a piece of that action?”
“Sorry, Dad. I can’t say.”
(page 56 in hardcover)
MY BOOK BEGINNINGS
“Awake and about, woman! There’s a hot plankton count to be done.”
Captain Evan York peeled the covers off his first mate and applied a hearty slap across her bare bottom. She in turn responded with a squealed curse, yanked them back up over her head, and burrowed deeper into her corner of the double bunk. York smiled down at the curl of tousled blond hair that showed from beneath the heavy Hudson’s Bay blankets. Roberts Eggerston had been sharing his life and bed for the better part of five years now and yet she maintained her own individuality. Among other things she would never be a morning person.
I can relate. I am not a morning person either. How about you?
GOODREADS BLURB
On a frigid fall morning in 2006, a sudden attack against a British scientific outpost in Antarctica heralds the beginning of an invasion of the seventh continent. Resurgent after the Falklands war, Argentina has launched an armed takeover of the Antarctic Peninsula, in an attempt to seize the last untapped pool of natural resources on the planet. The global community can only look on helplessly in the face of a continuing Argentine military buildup and a looming polar winter. One hope remains, a lone U.S. Navy vessel docked in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. The guided missile destroyer Cunningham is at the cutting edge of naval technology, the world’s first oceangoing stealth warship. Her 580-foot hull is invisible to hostile radar, while her own sophisticated Aegis sensor arrays grant her mastery of a 250-sea-mile radius. On board she carries a bristling complement of sophisticated weaponry: two SAH-66 Sea Comanche helicopters with nose-mounted APG-65 radar, Boeing Brave 2000 reconnaissance drones piloted by virtual reality helmet, and a full spectrum of the Navy’s deadliest precision-guided munitions. She is sleek, swift, secretive – and untested. Likewise untested is her commanding officer, Amanda Lee Garrett, U.S.N. Brilliant, bold, and tenacious, she leads her crew into the storm-wracked waters of Drake Passage. Together, they confront not only the massed might of the Argentine air force and navy, but the deadly, ice-clad majesty of the Antarctic itself. At stake, the destiny of the earth’s last frontier.
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I am a “cover girl”.
Cover by Junie Lee.
What does the cover say to you?
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Sounds delightfully adventurous! Thanks for sharing…and for visiting my blog.
Looks like an interesting story. 🙂
What an interesting adventure on the sea! We have a Hudson Bay blanket that I just love. The cover art gives a sense of cruising the sea with boldness. Nice post!
The synopsis makes me think of Tom Clancy’s books, which I enjoyed. Sounds like a good story.
My Friday post features THE TIME IN BETWEEN.
I don’t think this is for me, I hope you love it though! Happy weekend!
This sounds really good.
How exciting! Hope you have a great weekend!
It sounds really good. Not sure about the cover. Think I would have avoided it in a bookshop, but because of your description, I am now interested. Thanks.
This sounds like a fairly intense read. I hope you enjoy it.
You’ve got a winner here and I’d like to read it!
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