โ Scribed by Anthony Ryan
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Presenting in one volume all five stories in the Sci-fi Noir series by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Anthony Ryan, author of the acclaimed Raven's Shadow Trilogy. Includes the short stories Slab City Blues and A Song for Madame Choi, the novellas A Hymn to Gods Long Dead and The Ballad of Bad Jack, and the novel An Aria for Ragnarok.Welcome to the Slab. A vast orbiting slum where rats grow big, sweat falls in rain and the gene-spliced come in all shapes and sizes.Slab City Blues - There's a stranger on the Slab, a stranger with very sharp claws and a penchant for killing assassins. Finding him is the job of Inspector Alex McLeod, detective, disfigured war veteran and reluctant widower. Some days are worse than others on the Slab but today is going to be a gem.A Song for Madame Choi - An old enemy embroils Inspector Alex McLeod in the hunt for a kidnapped girl. With no leads he finds himself reluctantly seeking help from drug dealer and fellow war veteran Madame...
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He was a son who hadnt known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murderhis fathers murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his fathers seductive young wife had inherited a fortu
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