DEDICATION
For Charlie and Nick, the best partners in crime I could have asked for
EPIGRAPH
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
How much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
Victor Frankenstein
Contents
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPH
MEMORANDUM
12 WEEKS AFTER LINDISFARNE
91 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
1
ON PATROL
2
TRIANGLES HAVE SHARP EDGES
3
THE ART OF COMING CLEAN
4
GROWING PAINS
5
REBIRTH
6
CARPENTER AND SON
7
VALENTIN RECEIVES A VISITOR
90 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
8
THE BIG LEAGUES
9
NO STONE UNTURNED
10
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
11
THE BARE BONES
12
INSIDE THE VOID
13
HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE
14
SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT
15
ALL FALL DOWN
16
ALWAYS AND FOREVER
89 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
17
FAMILY TIES
18
KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE
19
AT THE CROSSROADS AT MIDNIGHT
20
MASTER AND COMMANDER
21
HEROES’ RETURN
22
TINFOIL HATS
88 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
23
THE INTERROGATION OF VALENTIN RUSMANOV
24
THE FOURTH MUSKETEER
25
THE ILLUMINATED CITY, PART I
26
FULL DISCLOSURE
27
THE ILLUMINATED CITY, PART II
28
THINK BUT THIS AND ALL IS MENDED
87 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
29
IN CONVERSATION WITH A MONSTER
30
THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR REVENGE
31
ECHOES OF THE PAST
32
THE DEPTHS OF KNOWLEDGE
33
IN THE COURT OF THE VAMPIRE KING
34
HOW TO STEAL FIRE FROM THE GODS
35
HOPE IS A DANGEROUS THING
36
VISION QUEST, PART I
37
FROM PILLAR TO POST
38
VISION QUEST, PART II
39
BACK FROM THE DEAD
40
VISION QUEST, PART III
41
AND A TORCH TO LIGHT THE WAY
42
VISION QUEST, PART IV
43
THE TIES THAT BIND
44
BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN
45
CURTAIN CALL
46
THE TWIST OF THE KNIFE
47
NOWHERE TO RUN, NOWHERE TO HIDE
48
SOME WOUNDS NEVER HEAL
49
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
50
REDUCED TO ASH
86 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
51
A COUNCIL OF WAR
52
ONLY FORWARD
FIRST EPILOGUE: IN THE FLESH
SECOND EPILOGUE: THREE FATHERS
85 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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MEMORANDUM
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