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So now you know the backstory. For my returning readers,
old friends await inside, facing new dangers, and battling
even more impossible odds. But guts are always more
important than guns, and those this FBI team have got in
abundance.
For all of the new readers, come on in and grab a weapon.
Plenty of M16 machine guns to the left, or magical wands to
the right. The tide of evil is rising, and the world is facing a
supernatural war beyond imagination. But there's always
room for one more hero on the battlefield.
Welcome.
тАФNick Pollotta
Chicago, Illinois, 2000




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 Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1
by Nick Pollotta




INITIATION


I finally found the murderer, and he was a lulu.
It had taken me months of freelance work to track down
the guy who killed my partner, and if the truth be known I
broke more than a few laws doing it. But I didn't give a damn.
As far as I could tell, the sick bastard had slaughtered over
forty people across a dozen states. Each done the same way
he killed Bill Smithers, my partner in Chicago, slit their
throats and drained the blood like he was a freaking vampire
or something.
The castle was up on the old New York Palisades, deserted
for years. I hid my car in the bushes, so nobody could spot
the out of state plates. The lock on the front door was good,
an expensive French model. Took me almost ten minutes to
get through. Inside, the place was surprisingly clean, some of
the rooms even carpeted. Not the usual thing for an undead.
But playing on the Count Dracula routine, I checked in the
basement.
The place was huge, large enough to land a plane, with a
high vaulted ceiling and granite-block walls. More resembled
an underground warehouse than a cellar. In a corner was a
big-screen TV and a brace of DVD players. Overflowing
bookcases lined the walls and in the middle of the place, on a
marble pedestal, was a large stainless steel coffin, with US