Teaser Tuesdays -- The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The smells of early-morning Aleppo rise, odors made sharper by my numbed, shaken state.  I slip past a flock of beating sheep, past men on camels who look like they've ridden all night, past corpses facedown in the street. 

~ p. 147, The Gendarme, by Mark Mustian

I had this in the library bag to go back without reading it, but took it back out after hearing that others have really liked it.  At this point, I'm still ambivalent about it.