Reaper's Legacy

underground. Jack felt an awful tug watching them go. He had been desperate to find and rescue them, and now that he had he was letting them go again. But he also had every confidence that Fleeter would see them safely through and out of London. Outside, they had their own work to do. And in London, he had his.

“Right then,” Sparky said, clapping his hands together. “Reaper’s at war, Miller’s pushed the button on a nuclear bomb that’ll explode at any time and flatten London, any Choppers left are out to avenge their dead friends. And I’m bloody staving. So what’s next?”

The four of started walking back the way they’d come, but no one answered Sparky’s final question.

None of them could know.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks as always to my agent Howard Morhaim, and to my editor Lou Anders.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TIM LEBBON is a New York Times-bestselling writer from South Wales. He’s had almost thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. His most recent releases include Coldbrook from Arrow/Hammer, London Eye (book one of the Toxic City trilogy) from Pyr in the United States, Nothing as It Seems from PS Publishing, and The Heretic Land from Orbit, as well as the Secret Journeys of Jack London series (coauthored with Christopher Golden), Echo City, and the Cabin in the Woods novelisation. Future novels include Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (Star Wars) from Del Rey/Star Wars Books. He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards.

Fox 2000 acquired film rights to The Secret Journeys of Jack London, and he and Golden wrote the first draft of the screenplay. A TV series of his Toxic City trilogy is in development with ABC Studios in the United States, and he’s also working on new screenplays, both solo and in collaboration with Stephen Volk.

Find out more about Tim at his website, www.timlebbon.net.

Copyright

Published 2013 by Pyr^®, an imprint of Prometheus Books

Reaper’s Legacy. Copyright © 2013 by Tim Lebbon. All rights reserved.

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Cover illustration © Steve Stone

Jacket design by Nicole Sommer-Lecht

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lebbon, Tim.

Reaper’s legacy / by Tim Lebbon.

p. cm.—(Toxic city : bk. 2)

ISBN 978–1–61614–767–9 (cloth)

ISBN 978–1–61614–768–6 (ebook)

1. London (England)—Fiction. 2. Great powers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3612.E245R43  2013

813?.6—dc23

2012048901

Printed in the United States of America