Darren Shan: The Saga of Larten Crepsley 1-4

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Birth of a Killer : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2010 Ocean of Blood : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2011 Palace of the Damned : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2011 Brothers to the Death : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2012 Cover illustrations © David Wyatt Cover images © Shutterstock.com

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Source ISBNs: 9780007435470, 9780007441570, 9780007455423, 9780007478385

Ebook edition © December 2014 ISBN: 9780008126018

Version: 2014-12-09

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Title Page THE SAGA OF LARTEN CREPSLEY DARREN SHAN THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Birth of a Killer Ocean of Blood Palace of the Damned and Brothers to the Death

Copyright Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Birth of a Killer Ocean of Blood Palace of the Damned Brothers to the Death Back ads About the Publisher HarperCollins Children's Books A division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith London, W6 8JB www.harpercollins.co.uk Birth of a Killer : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2010 Ocean of Blood : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2011 Palace of the Damned : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2011 Brothers to the Death : Text copyright © Darren Shan, 2012 Cover illustrations © David Wyatt Cover images © Shutterstock.com All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Darren Shan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Source ISBNs: 9780007435470, 9780007441570, 9780007455423, 9780007478385 Ebook edition © December 2014 ISBN: 9780008126018 Version: 2014-12-09

Birth of a Killer

Ocean of Blood

Palace of the Damned

Brothers to the Death

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About the Publisher Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

For:

Pearse and Conall — children of the night!

OBEs (Order of the Bloody Entrails) to:

Rachel Clements — one year down, only a couple of hundred to go!!

Isobel Abulhoul and all of the Shantastic gang

in Dubai

Editorial Mentor:

Nick “the blood ninja” Lake

General Masterminds:

Christopher Little and his Princely clan

PART ONE

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

PART TWO

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

PART THREE

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

PART FOUR

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

“Are cobwebs a treat where you come from?”

When Larten Crepsley awoke and yawned one grey Tuesday morning, he had no idea that by midday he would have become a killer.

He lay on his bed of sacks packed with straw, staring at specks of dust drifting through the air. The house where he lived was cramped and dark, and the room where he slept never caught the sun except at dawn. He often woke a few minutes earlier than necessary, before his mother roared for the family to get up. It was his only quiet time of the day, his one chance to lie back idly and grin lazily at the world.

There were six children in the room, five of them snoring and shifting in their sleep. Larten came from a crop of eight, but two had died young and his eldest sister left a year ago to marry. Although she was only fourteen, Larten suspected their parents were glad to be rid of her — she had never been an especially hard worker and brought home little money.

“Up!” Larten’s mother roared from the room next to theirs, and pounded the thin wall a couple of times.

The children groaned and crawled out of bed. They bumped into one another as they tried to find their way to the bedpan, the older siblings cuffing their younger brothers and sisters. Larten lay where he was, smiling smugly. He had already done his business while everyone else was asleep.