As the points of light begin to grow, the red shifts to white.
And each star explodes, continuing to expand until they banish the darkness and join forever in one incredibly bright, cleansing light.
About the Author
TIM LEBBON is a New York Times–bestselling writer from South Wales. He’s had almost thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. His most recent releases include Star Wars: Into the Void (Dawn of the Jedi) from Del Rey, Coldbrook from Arrow/Hammer, the Toxic City trilogy from Pyr in the United States, and Nothing as it Seems from PS Publishing, as well as The Secret Journeys of Jack London series (coauthored with Christopher Golden). He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards.
ABC Network is currently developing the Toxic City trilogy as a TV series, and 20th Century Fox acquired film rights to The Secret Journeys of Jack London series, for which Tim and Chris Golden wrote the first-draft screenplay. He is working on new novels and screenplays.
Find out more about Tim at his website, www.timlebbon.net.
THE TOXIC CITY TRILOGY
LONDON EYE
REAPER’S LEGACY
CONTAGION
Copyright
Published 2013 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Contagion. Copyright © 2013 Tim Lebbon. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Lebbon, Tim.
Contagion / By Tim Lebbon.
pages cm. — (Toxic City ; Book Three)
ISBN 978-1-61614-821-8 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-61614-822-5 (ebook)
1. Terrorism—Fiction. 2. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3612.E245C66 2013
813’.6—dc23
2013024869
Printed in the United States of America