Then the guy glanced out his window and Reggie got a good look at his face full-on.
He slammed back against the shadowed door.
Tony! Holy shit! Tony’s still alive!
But that couldn’t be! Al-Thani had told him about Moose, who’d been found in the dunes with his head bashed in, and another guy done execution style. Reggie had figured Tim had done both of them—Moose because Tim had been pissed at him, and Tony because Reggie had neglected to call in once the shooting began up north.
While Reggie had been recovering from his knee surgery, he’d read everything he could find on the Duck murders, as they were called at the time. The guy killed execution style had been identified as Tony Zahler. Reggie had never known his last name, but the first names matched. And that’s the way Tim would do it: two quick ones to the head.
So what was the dead guy doing alive and well in a New York City cab?
Had to tell Drexler. This could change everything. This could put Reggie’s name back in the “Needed” column. Because this could mean Tony was behind the hijacking.
Tony … alive! This changed everything.
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FEAR CITY
the final volume of The Early Years Trilogy
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The preponderance of my work deals with a history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this secret history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been transpiring behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world. I’ve listed them below in chronological order.
Note: “Year Zero” is the end of civilization as we know it; “Year Zero Minus One” is the year preceding it, etc.
THE PAST
“Demonsong” (prehistory)
“Aryans and Absinthe”** (1923–1924)
Black Wind (1926–1945)
The Keep (1941)
Reborn (February–March 1968)
“Dat Tay Vao”*** (March 1968)
Jack: Secret Histories (1983)
Jack: Secret Circles (1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance (1983)
“Faces”* (1988)
Cold City (1990)
Dark City (1991)
YEAR ZERO MINUS THREE
Sibs (February)
The Tomb (summer)
“The Barrens”* (ends in September)
“A Day in the Life”* (October)
“The Long Way Home”****
Legacies (December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS TWO
“Interlude at Duane’s”** (April)
Conspiracies (April) (includes “Home Repairs”)
All the Rage (May) (includes “The Last Rakosh”)
Hosts (June)
The Haunted Air (August)
Gateways (September)
Crisscross (November)
Infernal (December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS ONE
Harbingers (January)
Bloodline (April)
By the Sword (May)
Ground Zero (July)
The Touch (ends in August)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium (ends in September)
“Tenants”*
YEAR ZERO
“Pelts”*
Reprisal (ends in February)
Fatal Error (February) (includes “The Wringer”)
The Dark at the End (March)
Nightworld (May)
*available in The Barrens and Others
**available in Aftershock & Others
***available in the 2009 reissue of The Touch
****available in Quick Fixes
ALSO BY F. PAUL WILSON
Repairman Jack Novels*
The Tomb
Legacies
Conspiracies
All the Rage
Hosts
The Haunted Air
Gateways
Crisscross
Infernal
Harbingers
Bloodline
By the Sword
Ground Zero
Fatal Error
The Dark at the End
Nightworld
Jack: Secret Histories
Jack: Secret Circles
Jack: Secret Vengeance
The Early Years Trilogy*
Cold City
The Adversary Cycle*
The Keep
The Tomb
The Touch
Reborn
Reprisal
Nightworld
Other Novels
Healer
Wheels Within Wheels
An Enemy of the State
Black Wind*
Dydeetown World
The Tery
Sibs*
The Select
Virgin
Implant
Deep as the Marrow
Mirage (with
Matthew J. Costello)
Nightkill (with
Steven Spruill)
Masque (with
Matthew J. Costello)
The Christmas Thingy
Sims
The Fifth Harmonic
Midnight Mass
The Proteus Cure (with
Tracy L. Carbone)
Short Fiction
Soft and Others
The Barrens and Others*
Aftershock & Others*
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling
Circus & Oddity Emporium*
Quick Fixes*
Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong
Editor
Freak Show
Diagnosis: Terminal
* See “The Secret History of the World” (here).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
F. Paul Wilson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels, lives in Wall, New Jersey.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
DARK CITY
Copyright © 2013 by F. Paul Wilson
All rights reserved.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Dark city / F. Paul Wilson. — First Edition.
pages cm.—(Repairman Jack Novels)
“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”
ISBN 978-0-7653-3015-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-3419-4 (e-book)
1. Repairman Jack (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Crimes against—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.I45695D35 2013
813'.54—dc23
2013018474
e-ISBN 9781466834194
First Edition: October 2013