"William W. Johnstone - Ashes 09 - Valor In The Ashes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Johnstone William W)

New York City before the great war a decade

past, and who understood that the cleaning out of the mutant,

cannibalistic Night People, headquartered in the

Big Apple, was not going to be a short-term

operation.

It would certainly take all of the fall and all of the

winter, and could well extend into spring or even

summer ... or longer.

But it was something that had to be.

The Judges were here, somewhere within the concrete-and-steel

canyons of the city: those men and women who ruled the

Night People, who dictated the terrible deeds that they

did.

They had to be destroyed.

And there was only one army on the face of the earth-that

Ben was aware of-that had the capability to tackle and

ultimately accomplish that task: Ben

Raines and his Rebels.

Ben stood in the cool fall air and looked over the

watery distance that separated St. George, on

Staten Island, from lower Manhattan.

When the Rebels had first arrived on Staten
Island, they had-Ben included-mistakenly believed

the place was deserted.

Came the first night, and they were proved wrong.