City of the Long Night

By Gerard Mulligan
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Published: March 24, 2011
Words: 69,720 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

Jonathan Small is the most powerful man in the sprawling urban mess, known as the City, which covers the globe. He has everything a man could possibly possess except for the one thing he desires the most. Revenge against his family. To achieve this, he will throw the city into chaos and threaten its very survival. As night falls, humanity rules, as dawns comes, things might be a little different.

Extended description

The sprawling mess of humanity which has consumed the world, known simply as the City, is controlled by the callous Jonathan Small through the monolithic entity of Small Beginnings. Although a young man, Jonathan is now dying. He has, however, one remaining ambition in life. To kill his father, Rye, whom he blames for the death of his mother. To lure Rye out of hiding from the City Beyond, the name given to the outer universe, Jonathan deliberately allows his paranoid grandfather, Grand-Daddy Small, to escape from the imprisonment he himself imposed thereby triggering a violent and emotional dynastic struggle among the Small family.
During a single night, their conflict engulfs the seething and corrupt city. An army of mercenaries and the Small Beginnings trooper forces battle furiously among the soaring high-rises and dirty alleyways. As the fighting brings down the energy network, causing blackouts to ripple through the city, the facade of civil law and order governing humanity co.. (Read more) The sprawling mess of humanity which has consumed the world, known simply as the City, is controlled by the callous Jonathan Small through the monolithic entity of Small Beginnings. Although a young man, Jonathan is now dying. He has, however, one remaining ambition in life. To kill his father, Rye, whom he blames for the death of his mother. To lure Rye out of hiding from the City Beyond, the name given to the outer universe, Jonathan deliberately allows his paranoid grandfather, Grand-Daddy Small, to escape from the imprisonment he himself imposed thereby triggering a violent and emotional dynastic struggle among the Small family.
During a single night, their conflict engulfs the seething and corrupt city. An army of mercenaries and the Small Beginnings trooper forces battle furiously among the soaring high-rises and dirty alleyways. As the fighting brings down the energy network, causing blackouts to ripple through the city, the facade of civil law and order governing humanity collapses. The Rones, the human’s perfected but emotive robotic slaves, seize the occasion to rise up against centuries of oppression. The newly awakened Reapers, sentient creatures born of disastrous long forgotten experiments, also return home seeking to reclaim their stolen birthright.
In the midst of the city’s end, an array of ruthless individuals pursue their own ambitions including the city’s greatest assassin Tough Love, the worn-out pilot First Dog, the enraged rone leader Attic, the treacherous head of security Equal, the megalomaniac Internal Weapons, the immortality seeking Rone-gods, the banished preacher Clergy, and the ancient arch-rone Temper.
Jonathan Small’s desire for revenge against his family drag them all to a final bloody showdown beneath the Hale Sea. As the night falls, humanity rules. As the morning comes, humanity is in deep trouble.
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science fiction, future, urban, machines, future adventure

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