J. Mitchell: Midnight City

The boldly marked walker trumpeted with electronic disdain at the sight. More Assembly had arrived to join in the hunt.

The walker trumpeted once more, this time with urgency… and then it and the rest of its Hunters bounded off toward the north, searching for the trail that would lead them to their priceless quarry.

J. BARTON MITCHELL is a screenwriter, comic book writer, and author. He studied creative writing at the University of Houston before going on to receive a B.S. in film studies from the University of Texas. After selling screenplays to Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, Mitchell created and wrote the comic book series Poe, published by Boom! Studios in 2009. Mitchell lives and writes in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.

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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.

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Cover photographs: sky © shutterstock.com; people © Shane Rebenschied; dog © shutterstock.com; city © Colin Anderson / Getty Images; rubble © Christophe Dessaigne / Trevillion Images

ISBN 978-1-250-00907-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-01343-9 (e-book)

First Edition: November 2012