Book Meme: Nearest Book

I snagged this from Confessions of a Book Whore, although it's one that I've done before on Facebook. Still, it's so great that I just had to do it again! So, rules as follows:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

So, my result:

"The Hongguo began life as a company. Profit was king, Brandon, the trading arm wasn't pacifist, just mercantile and nonlethal. And good at what it did."

From Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell (my current read and looking very good!)