Reading the opening chapter, no one would think it was the work of a first novelist in his 20's.
"There is no middle way for Americans," they write in the opening chapter.
A good opening chapter, after which everything goes to pieces.
This opening chapter is a prologue to the main story.
"Things can't go on as they have been," he writes in the opening chapter.
The opening chapter does a good job of setting everything up.
But it was just the opening chapter in an extraordinary story.
She'd send the first book in, and the opening chapters of the second.
Places and names you already know from the opening chapter are mentioned again, but this time in a new context.
The scene can be found in the opening chapter of the book.