Table of Contents
Copyright Page
Title Page
Epigraph
Chapter 1 - TEENACE WASTELAND
Chapter 2 - SINS OF THE FATHER
Chapter 3 - ATTACK ON SUBURBIA
Chapter 4 - SEARCH AND RESCUE
Chapter 5 - INTO THE DARKNESS
Chapter 6 - THE LYCEUM INCIDENT, PART I
Chapter 7 - IT’S HARD TO BREATHE WITH A HAND AROUND YOUR THROAT
Chapter 8 - THE LYCEUM INCIDENT, PART II
Chapter 9 - A HARD DAY’S NIGHT
Chapter 10 - THE LYCEUM INCIDENT, PART III
Chapter 11 - THE MORNING AFTER
Chapter 12 - A CRIMSON KINDNESS
Chapter 13 - FIRST DATE
Chapter 14 - SPLINTER CELL
Chapter 15 - THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
Chapter 16 - EVERY BOY’S DREAM
Chapter 17 - THE BLACK SHEEP
Chapter 18 - IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
Chapter 19 - BLOOD AND LETTERS
Chapter 20 - THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, PART I
Chapter 21 - THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS
Chapter 22 - THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, PART II
Chapter 23 - ROUND TWO
Chapter 24 - THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, PART III
Chapter 25 - HE WAS MY FRIEND AND I LOVED HIM
Chapter 26 - THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Chapter 27 - THREE’S A CROWD
Chapter 28 - ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR
Chapter 29 - A CALCULATED RISK
Chapter 30 - VALHALLA
Chapter 31 - ONE RULE FOR EVERYONE
Chapter 32 - WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Chapter 33 - ON THE WAY TO THE GALLOWS
Chapter 34 - THE HUNTING PARTY
Chapter 35 - YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Chapter 36 - THE SECOND INVASION OF LINDISFARNE
Chapter 37 - AT THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
Chapter 38 - LOVE BURNS
Chapter 39 - A FORMAL INVITATION
Chapter 40 - BREAKING POINT
Chapter 41 - THE EASTERN FRONT
Chapter 42 - UNHOLY ISLAND
Chapter 43 - THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
Chapter 44 - IN THE HOUSE OF GOD
Chapter 45 - THE TRUTH HURTS
Chapter 46 - STAND, AND BE TRUE
Chapter 47 - THE HUMAN HEART IS A FRAGILE THING
Chapter 48 - THE END OF THE TUNNEL
FIRST EPILOGUE
SECOND EPILOGUE
Department 19
RAZORBILL
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I have outwalked the furthest city light.
—Robert Frost
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PROLOGUE
Brenchley, Kent
November 3, 2007
Jamie Carpenter was watching TV in the living room when he heard the tires of his dad’s car crunch across the gravel driveway much, much earlier than usual. Jamie looked at the clock on the wall above the TV and frowned. It was a quarter past six. Julian Carpenter had never, to the best of Jamie’s memory, arrived home from work before seven o’clock, and even that was only on special occasions like his mom’s birthday or when Arsenal were playing in the Champions League.