summer 3

This is the very beginning of the book. “Nailer clambered through a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. Ancient asbestos fibers and mouse grit puffed up around him as the wire tore loose. He scrambled deeper into the duct, jerking more wire from its aluminum staples…The LED glowpaint smeared on Nailer’s forehead gave a dim green phosphorescent view of the service ducts that made up his world. Grime and salt sweat stung his eyes and trickled around the edges of his filter mask. With one scarred hand, he swiped at the salty rivulets, careful to avoid rubbing off the LED pain. The paint itched and drove him crazy, but he didn’t relish finding his way back out of the mazelike ducts in blind blackness, so he let his forehead itch and again surveyed his position.” In this quote Nailer is crawling through the ducts of a boat scavenging everything he can. As he looks he is secretly hoping to find oil to get him out of this business. This quote hooked me because it shows how interesting his job is. I have never read anything like this book before so it got my attention. He used an action hook to grab the reader’s attention.