You Have Five Pages, The Silent Sisters by Robert Dugoni, to Tell Me You're Good.

The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! The first pages of The Silent Sisters by Robert Dugoni transport us immediately into a dangerous, bloody territory. Who is really on the meathook--the enemy, or the ally? We do not know. While I do have a minor niggle about the pacing, this prologue definitely promises a taut thriller for all the espionage-lovers out there. What will you, fellow creatives, make of these first five pages? Let's find out!