LITMIR.BIZ

      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

       COVER

      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

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      17

      FAMILY TIES

      18

      KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE

      19

      AT THE CROSSROADS AT MIDNIGHT

      20

      MASTER AND COMMANDER

      21

      HEROES’ RETURN

      22

      TINFOIL HATS

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      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

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      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

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      A COUNCIL OF WAR

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      ONLY FORWARD

      FIRST EPILOGUE: IN THE FLESH

      SECOND EPILOGUE: THREE FATHERS

      85 DAYS TILL ZERO HOUR

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