First Line from Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World

In a medical examination on the eve of the Nuremburg Trials, the doctors found the nails of Hermann Göring’s fingers and toes stained a furious red, the consequence of his addiction to dihydrocodeine, an analgesic of which he took more than one hundred pills a day. 

 

-- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut.