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John Glasby. Savage City

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BORGO PRESS BOOKS BY JOHN GLASBY

The Dark Boatman: Tales of Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos

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Caroline Lomer. I tried to make guesses at what could have happened. Haunted by fear, scared stiff of something she couldn’t fight, something she couldn’t live with any longer, she had gone to the police, asking for protection, demanding security, searching for a way out of her fear. Thinking about her, I realised that we had been possibly two of a kind. Only I had been a little more fortunate. I had escaped from the rackets with a whole skin. She had died trying.

Don’t kid yourself either way, Merak. These men are killers. They know you from the old days. They also know that if anybody can smash them, you can. Do you think they’re going to give you the chance again? It’s a good life you’ve got now. You’ve earned it, so why throw it away? If this is an Underworld killing, if the Organisation is at the back of it, you don’t stand the ghost of a chance going through with it.

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