"Nancy Holder - Highlander - Measure of a Man" - читать интересную книгу автора (Holder Nancy)

writer Gillian Horvath for saying yes. They and script coordinator and
Watcher Chronicle CD-ROM author Donna Lettow worked hard to help me find
the right story to add to Duncan's chronicle.

Thanks to my Warner editor, Betsy Mitchell, for being everything an
author dreams of Thanks also to Wayne "Zelig" Chang for his assistance.
And to you both for walking, and walking, and walking.

To my terrific agent, Howard Morhaim, mahalo and aloha nui nui.

To Jeremy Lassen, Elizabeth Baldwin, Patrick Heffernan, Jeff Mariotte
and Christopher Golden, my thanks for their wonderful imaginations and
their support.

Also, my sincere thanks to all the fans who have built HIGHLANDER web
sites. To Queen and Roger Bellon, thank you for the evocative music I
have listened to all day, every day, for months. Memento mori, Freddy
Mercury.

My everlasting gratitude to my husband, Wayne, whose love makes me
immortal. To everyone at Reproductive Sciences, bless you: Samuel Wood,
M.D., Ph.D.; David Smotrich, M.D.; Lila Schmidt, M.D.; Elaine Epperson,
Ph.D.; Steven Chan, Ph.D.; Catherine Adams, Ph.D.; Vickie Stocker, R.N.;
Becca Hansen, Cindy Miller, Jennifer Bantle, Jannell Terry, R.N., Amie
Baldwin, and Linda Anderson.

Finally, I would like to thank Mssrs. Christopher Lambert and Adrian
Paul, and the casts of Highlander: The Series and the films, for
creating a kind of magic that has made me, quite simply, lose my head.

Prologue: The Kata of the Adversary

-When you want to fight, do not face an enemy near water. Watch the
light, stay in high places, do notface the current. . . ."

-Sun Tzu, THE Art of War

Here we are, Highlander.

Princes.

But there can be only one king.

So, listen. Listen to my voice that stretches across the universe and
tells you a story of once upon the end of your time: This is how it will
be when you die, Bonnie Prince Duncan.

And this is the nature of the life you will lose:

Into the misty Highland dawn you come, (or you believe that you did),