The Failed Cities Monologues

-In this episode: Interlude or prelude. When it's a romantic encounter with d'Anger you can never be sure which you're caught up in. Learning about her past, however, you might know which to expect . . .

-In this episode: A new detective's shield, an old suit, and a lethal case no one else wants. It's not the way Valeri Klimenko, the former constable, wants to start out his night. But they may have all underestimated this simple young man from the Ukraine, who's been

-In this episode: Fera and her brother have murdered, maimed, and massacred on every continent across the globe, but it's the hard, ugly lessons she learned as a girl that command Fera's pathology. When her intended victim for the night is snatched away by a resourcef

-In this episode: Truck lives for the action, for life on the edge of a blade. But when a routine pick-up goes a hundred miles south of wrong, that pace comes to a crashing halt...

-In this episode: Jump into the story with Sterne. He's about to live one of his own pulp adventures, but unlike Curly, his fearless juggernaut alter ego, Sterne is going to find out that the real bad guys don't wear hats. And his instructors for the evening? The Fera

-In this episode: Boredom's a dangerous thing when you're one of The Feral Twins, and not even arson, kidnapping, and back alley crucifixions can relieve it. Ferus just wants one worthy opponent before the night is through. He's forgotten what the Chinese say about wh

-In this episode: Reverend Ethan is a man who likes to keep things simple: a collar, a street to keep, a stick to keep them with. But tonight, with war looming just around a battered brick corner, things are about to get complicated. A missing mediator, a fallen stree

-In this episode: If you're new to the Failed Cities, there's only one place to go if you want to be in the know, and it's not some digital Orwellian info-matrix. It's a tiny tarot den in the shadiest part of town. Psychic Sally is a palm-reader with a third eye on al

-In this episode: When fevered streets reach their boiling point, you bring in a mediator. When it's looking like back alley war, you need a maven. Tonight was already going to be his toughest mediation yet. Then his throat got put on the bargaining table...

-In this episode: In the Failed Cities, being beautiful can make you a victim. Being beautiful and smart can make you dangerous. d'Anger has a flawlessform, a Botticelli face...and an IQ of 175...