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Resurrection, Inc.
by Kevin J. Anderson




PART I


RESURRECTION




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Resurrection, Inc.
by Kevin J. Anderson




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The two Enforcers found the dead man in the street, long
after curfew. The city's night hung around them, tainted with
a clammy mist caught between the tall and dark buildings.
The smell of fresh blood, smoke, and the sweat of close-
pressed bodies drifted upward into the air.
The slain man was naked, spread-eagled inside a
geometrically perfect pentagram drawn in blood. At each of
the five corners of the pentagram burned candles of black
paraffin, made to look archaic with artificially molded runnels
of wax along the sides. A wide knife wound hung cleanly open
in the center of the victim's chest, like an appalled extra
mouth.
With a throb of its rear jets, the Enforcers' armored
hovercar descended to the flagstones. As the engine purred
its way into silence, Enforcer Jones, a tall and thin black man,
emerged from the craft. He hung back uneasily, remaining
near the hovercar. "Neo-Satanists again!" he muttered under
his breath.
The other Enforcer, Frampton, agreed. "Yeah, they give
me the creeps." Belying his words, he went eagerly forward,