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Blood World

Chris Mooney
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  1. OTHER TITLES BY CHRIS MOONEY
  2. CONTENTS
  4. Thy Kingdom Come
  5. CHAPTER 1
  6. CHAPTER 2
  7. CHAPTER 3
  8. CHAPTER 4
  9. CHAPTER 5
  10. CHAPTER 6
  11. CHAPTER 7
  12. CHAPTER 8
  13. CHAPTER 9
  14. CHAPTER 10
  15. CHAPTER 11
  16. CHAPTER 12
  18. Thy Will Be Done
  19. CHAPTER 13
  20. CHAPTER 14
  21. CHAPTER 15
  22. CHAPTER 16
  23. CHAPTER 17
  24. CHAPTER 18
  25. CHAPTER 19
  26. CHAPTER 20
  27. CHAPTER 21
  28. CHAPTER 22
  29. CHAPTER 23
  30. CHAPTER 24
  31. CHAPTER 25
  32. CHAPTER 26
  33. CHAPTER 27
  34. CHAPTER 28
  35. CHAPTER 29
  36. CHAPTER 30
  37. CHAPTER 31
  39. In Heaven as It Is on Earth
  40. CHAPTER 32
  41. CHAPTER 33
  42. CHAPTER 34
  43. CHAPTER 35
  44. CHAPTER 36
  45. CHAPTER 37
  46. CHAPTER 38
  47. CHAPTER 39
  48. CHAPTER 40
  49. CHAPTER 41
  50. CHAPTER 42
  51. CHAPTER 43
  52. CHAPTER 44
  53. CHAPTER 45
  54. CHAPTER 46
  55. CHAPTER 47
  56. CHAPTER 48
  57. CHAPTER 49
  58. CHAPTER 50
  59. CHAPTER 51
  60. CHAPTER 52
  61. CHAPTER 53
  62. CHAPTER 54
  64. Give Us This Day
  65. CHAPTER 55
  66. CHAPTER 56
  67. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  68. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  69. What’s next on your reading list?
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OTHER TITLES BY CHRIS MOONEY

DARBY MCCORMICK SERIES

The Missing

The Secret Friend

The Dead Room

The Soul Collectors

Fear the Dark

Every Three Hours

Every Pretty Thing

The Snow Girls

The Killing House

Deviant Ways

World Without End

Remembering Sarah

Book title, Blood World, author, Chris Mooney, imprint, Berkley

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Mooney, Chris, author.

Title: Blood world / Chris Mooney.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Berkley, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019057674 (print) | LCCN 2019057675 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593197639 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593197653 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Psychological fiction. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3563.O565 B56 2020 (print) | LCC PS3563.O565 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057674

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057675

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Jacket design by Tierney and Wood LLC

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Cover

Other Titles by Chris Mooney

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Part 1 – Thy Kingdom Come

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Part 2 – Thy Will Be Done

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Part 3 – In Heaven as It Is on Earth

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Part 4 – Give Us This Day

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Acknowledgments

About the Author

For Jackson,

the greatest gift

Part 1

Thy Kingdom Come

CHAPTER 1

WHEN ELLIE BATISTA turned the patrol car onto Montclair, a quiet street in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood, she spotted a big Secret Service–looking dude in slick mirrored sunglasses and a black suit ushering a boy dressed up in prep school clothing to a Chevy Suburban with tinted windows parked at the top of the driveway of a spacious, contemporary ranch house. The guy holding open the SUV’s back door was bigger and taller than his partner, but the thing Ellie noticed right away was how both men were looking around like a sniper was lurking somewhere nearby, in this neighborhood where the greatest danger was living next to someone who hadn’t paid their parking tickets.