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    Ghostkiller
    Ghostkiller
    Ghostkiller
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    Ghostkiller

    By Steven Savile

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    Noah Larkin is a damaged man. He isn't a hero in the traditional sense. He doesn't do the right thing. He gets into trouble because he lets his heart lead him there, but when your back's against the wall he's the best friend you could ever have. Just ask Margot.

    This is a self-inclusive short ripped from the pages of GOLD, follow up to SILVER, a thriller unmatched coming summer/fall 2011.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVariance Publishing
    Release dateDec 7, 2010
    ISBN9781465967770
    Ghostkiller
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    Steven Savile

    Steven Savile has no life. It's official. That's probably the most important thing you can know about him. So, now we've got that out of the way, the good stuff, like what's he done, where and to whom. Steve's a man of many hats - like many people without hair. Hat number one, the bright colourful scotch tweed flat cap, is Steve's original fiction. Most recently he has written SILVER. You might have noticed it. It takes up a good 90% of this site. If you didn't notice it you're probably not reading this bit either, so I guess we'll forgive you, not that you'll notice. His other stuff include various novels and short story collections like The Hollow Earth, Temple: Incarnations, Laughing Boy's Shadow, Houdini's Last Illusion, Angel Road, and the graphic novel Fragrance of You (with artist Robert Sammelin). Steve was a runner up in the 2000 British Fantasy Awards, a winner of a 2002 Writers of the Future Award, and was nominated for the inaugural 2006 Scribe Award for best novel adaptation for his novel Slaine: The Exile. His novel Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar is currently nominated for the 2008 Scribe Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Fingers and toes are naturally crossed. Hat number two is his tie-in writing. Steve is the author of the Von Carstein Vampire trilogy (Inheritance, Dominion, Retribution) set in Games Workshop's popular Warhammer world. The individual books were gathered together into the omnibus edition, Vampire Wars, and Steve being the awkward so and so he is went and rewrote the last chapter of the last book just for that omnibus. It isn't often we get a chance to put right what once went wrong, so to speak, so apologies to everyone who read the original ending. Go to the local bookshop and check out the new end. Tell them Steve sent you if they hassle you about reading in the corner without buying the book! His final book for Games Workshop, Curse of the Necrarch, features a 60 year old hero who has a heartattack right around the page 50, and is all about the futility of heroism and war as it's generally portrayed in fantasy novels. Let's just say it was a brave book for Games Workshop to publish and opinion seems to be split down the middle as to whether it is the best or worst thing he's ever written, so he must have done something right, eh? Steve's also written the best-selling original audio novel Torchwood: Hidden for BBC Audiobooks. It was read by Naoko Mori who plays Toshiko Sato in the BBC s...

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      Ghostkiller - Steven Savile

      GHOSTKILLER

      A standalone story ripped from the pages of

      GOLD, An Ogmios Team Adventure

      Steven Savile

      Published by Variance at Smashwords

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      Copyright © 2010 Steven Savile, Smashwords edition

      All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and should not be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For more information e-mail all inquiries to:

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      Variance Publishing

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      Cover Illustration by Stanley Tremblay

      Interior Layout by Stanley Tremblay

      Visit Steven Savile on the web at: www.stevensavile.com.

      ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS

      Noah Larkin held the Queen’s head in his hands.

      She looked old now, even on the back of the money. Worn out. And it wasn’t just the fact that the note had been in circulation for the best part of its eighteen month lifecycle. Every line was etched in. The artist showed no mercy. Supposedly they were security features, but as far as Noah was concerned they were just disrespectful.

      He didn’t consider himself a royalist. He had no particular preference if Charles or William followed Elizabeth. As far as he was concerned she was the last of her kind anyway, the last true Queen of England. This new breed of Royals were clueless; if it wasn’t the father calling landmark buildings carbuncles on the face of his country or phone-tapped sex tapes of calls to his lover,

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