Chapters (54)
- Cover
- EVERWILD
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
- PART ONEA Vapor of Afterlights
- CHAPTER 1Fresh Havoc
- CHAPTER 2The View on High
- CHAPTER 3Audience with an Ogre
- CHAPTER 4The Outcast
- CHAPTER 5Southern Discomfort
- CHAPTER 6Shuttle Diplomacy
- CHAPTER 7A Fistful of Forever
- PART TWODancing with the Deadlies
- CHAPTER 8Treasures of the Flesh
- CHAPTER 9Good Stewards
- CHAPTER 10Skinjacking for Fun and Profit
- CHAPTER 11Surfing Tennessee
- CHAPTER 12Of Monsters and Mullets
- CHAPTER 13Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
- CHAPTER 14Strange Winds
- CHAPTER 15The Flight of Mikey McGill
- PART THREEThe Great White City
- CHAPTER 16Mary’s Master Plan
- CHAPTER 17The Death Boss
- CHAPTER 18The Interlight Incubator
- CHAPTER 19Eminence Green
- PART FOURWay of the Chocolate Warrior
- CHAPTER 20The Great Train Robbery
- CHAPTER 21Let ’Er Rip
- CHAPTER 22Cram That Sucker
- CHAPTER 23Severance and Blithe
- CHAPTER 24It’s a Dog’s Life
- PART FIVEThe Skinjacker Revelations
- CHAPTER 25Lair of the Cat Woman
- CHAPTER 26Home
- CHAPTER 27Skinjacker’s Lullaby
- CHAPTER 28The Sleep of the Dead
- CHAPTER 29Teed for Two
- CHAPTER 30A Place on the Mantel
- PART SIXCity of the Dead
- CHAPTER 31On the Banks of Eternity
- CHAPTER 32The Low Approach
- CHAPTER 33Suspicious Minds
- CHAPTER 34Poolside Rendezvous
- CHAPTER 35Allie-Allie-Oxen-Free
- CHAPTER 36The Intolerable Nexus of Extremes
- CHAPTER 37Sky Refugees
- CHAPTER 38Last Train Out of Memphis
- CHAPTER 39At the Moment of Madness
- CHAPTER 40The Changeling and the Golem
- EPILOGUERequiem for the Living
- Unwind excerpt
- Unwholly excerpt
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To be an AWOL Unwind is one thing, but to be a cop killer is another. The manhunt for Starkey becomes more than just your typical Unwind chase. It seems the whole world is put on alert. First Starkey changes his look, dying his straggly brown hair red, cutting it bookworm-short, and shaving off the little victory garden goatee that he’s been cultivating since middle school. Now when people see him, they might get a feeling they’ve seen him before, but not know from where, because now he looks less like a face from a wanted poster and more like someone you’d see on a Wheaties box. The red hair is a bit of a disconnect with his olive complexion, but then, being a genetic hodgepodge has served him well all his life. He’s always been a chameleon who could pass for any ethnicity. The red hair just adds one more level of misdirection.
He skips town and never stays anywhere for more than a day or two. Word is that the Pacific Northwest is more sympathetic to AWOL Unwinds than Southern California, so that’s where he’s headed.
Starkey is prepared for life as a fugitive, because he has always lived in a kind of protective paranoia. Don’t trust anyone, not even your own shadow, and look out for your own best interests. His friends appreciated his clear-cut approach to life, because they always knew where they stood. He would fight to the end for his friends . . . as long as it was in his own interest to do so.
“You have the soul of a corporation,” a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took it as a compliment. Corporations have great power and do fine things in this world when they choose to. She was a glacier-hugging math teacher who got laid off the following year, because who needs math teachers when you can just get a NeuroWeave? Just goes to show you, hugging a chunk of ice gets you nothing but cold.
Now, however, Starkey’s one with the huggers, because they’re the kind of people who run the Anti-Divisional Resistance, harboring runaway Unwinds. Once he’s in the hands of the ADR, he knows he’ll be safe, but finding them is the hard part.