It wasn't supposed to turn out like this. We had a storybook romance. So why am I hiding in a shelter for battered women? Especially since he never hit me. The worst part is worrying about my daughter. Does she know she still has a mommy? Does she have any idea how much I love her? And will I ev
Before the Dawn
β Scribed by Max Allan Collins
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299080200
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**_Never-before-told tales of action and adventure
revealing the early days of Dark Angel!
_**Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing "brothers and sisters" from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control.
By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as "Eyes Only." The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of...
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