Ричард Морган: The Dark Defiles

To Roger Burnett and Inka Schorn for lending me not just one but two places in the sun from which to work, and for supplementing the loan throughout with bright company, kind words and emergency pasta.

To Gilbert Scott and Luisa Termine for giving me workspace right up until day of sale, and for searching out a beautiful oak table for me to work on when the existing one evaporated under family pressure.

To my wife Virginia for buying, fitting and accepting with good grace the shiny new lock on my office door, even when it rendered her a de facto single mother for days at a time, time and time again.

To my son Daniel for solemnly accepting at less than two years of age that no, he couldn’t come to work with me, even if it was only in the next room.

To Simon Spanton and Anne Groell for Understanding well beyond the Call of editorial Duty.

To my agent Carolyn Whitaker for patience, calm and good advice as ever—even if I did end up ignoring the latter almost entirely. I would not have reached journey’s end without you.

Altered Carbon

Broken Angels

Woken Furies

Market Forces

Thirteen

The Steel Remains

The Cold Commands

The Dark Defiles

RICHARD K. MORGAN is the acclaimed author of The Cold Commands , The Steel Remains , Thirteen , which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, The Steel Remains , and Altered Carbon , a New York Times Notable Book that also won the Philip K. Dick Award. Morgan sold the movie rights for Altered Carbon to Joel Silver and Warner Bros. His third book, Market Forces , has also been sold to Warner Bros and was the winner of the John W. Campbell Award. He lives in Scotland.

The Dark Defiles is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Richard Morgan

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