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Battle Lines
Will Hill
Book 3 from the talent behind the bestselling hardback YA debut of 2011. Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. Department 19 is on the back foot. Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to war. The stakes? Mankind’s very survival…As the clock ticks remorselessly towards Zero Hour and the return of Dracula, the devastated remnants of Department 19 try to hold back the rising darkness.Jamie Carpenter is training new recruits, trying to prepare them for a fight that appears increasingly futile. Kate Randall is pouring her grief into trying to plug the Department's final leaks, as Matt Browning races against time to find a cure for vampirism. And on the other side of the world, Larissa Kinley has found a place she feels at home, yet where she makes a startling discovery.Uneasy truces are struck, new dangers emerge on all sides, and relationships are pushed to breaking point. And in the midst of it all, Department 19 faces a new and potentially deadly threat, born out of one of the darkest moments of its own long and bloody history.Zero Hour is coming. And the Battle Lines have been drawn.
For Sarah,
who knew what writers were like, but managed to look past it
The earth had a single light afar,
A flickering, human pathetic light,
That was maintained against the night,
It seemed to me, by the people there,
With a Godforsaken brute despair.
Robert Frost
We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
Jonathan Harker
Table of Contents
Title Page (#udf3beaa0-d113-5b46-8601-ef3ecf8ac750)
Dedication (#u8c5f3a78-1700-505e-bc07-c60ceaebc0b0)
Epigraph (#ue74129e0-08cc-598e-8acc-f28cbdaf6fd3)
Memorandum (#u6275d24b-5c5c-5971-9567-35fbed52165f)
Prologue (#u62b550ac-9922-51df-9cb9-a46d33b2cfed)
52 Days Till Zero Hour (#ud8d4e159-dd91-545a-8e4b-598cd5f4cb39)
1. The Next Generation (#u58dd361c-1156-5cef-a25c-cf8f2ead2718)
2. Lazarus Revamped (#uca4a7511-ce2d-5efb-a8c4-10ef60bef319)
3. Slow News Day (#u5ce28fe0-92f4-53ba-aa97-365861c6edc8)
4. The Desert Should Be No Place for a Vampire (#uea95b1dd-8c08-5a08-9a64-bdd46bfff554)
5. Everything Heals, in Time (#ucff683db-8aa4-556e-917e-4fdad67a3dc9)
6. Civilised Men (#ua4c0886a-087d-5fdb-ae16-aae631fa2561)
7. Sink or Swim (#ua4485c50-39d8-56b4-bce1-085faeb37d19)
8. The Lost Harker (#ua1126d3f-fb79-562b-9522-f5933b61991c)
9. The Shock of the New (#u21440b56-379f-5cc1-b240-872c1e518930)
10. In Conversation (#ua07a9d6f-f8f9-50d2-83f5-dd29e316386e)
11. Time to Go Home (#u987ed1cb-08af-58ef-861f-ee0f7442579b)
12. Ready to Roll (#u196eb398-6c6a-5be5-a52f-84052440df1c)
13. Social Networking (#u5858abd1-d3f6-5d3c-a2eb-31102034dda0)
14. Girls vs Boys (#litres_trial_promo)
51 Days Till Zero Hour (#litres_trial_promo)
15. One of Our Own (#litres_trial_promo)
16. Classified Means Classified (#litres_trial_promo)
17. Old Scores (#litres_trial_promo)
18. The Most Important Meal of the Day (#litres_trial_promo)
19. The War on Drugs, Part One (#litres_trial_promo)
20. The Sleep of The Just (#litres_trial_promo)
21. The War on Drugs, Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)
22. On The Trail of the Dead (#litres_trial_promo)
23. Truth or Consequences (#litres_trial_promo)
24. The War on Drugs, Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)
25. From Beyond the Grave (#litres_trial_promo)
26. Too Close to Home (#litres_trial_promo)
27. Dormant for Too Long (#litres_trial_promo)
28. Where It Hurts (#litres_trial_promo)
29. Drowning Out (#litres_trial_promo)
30. Preliminary Conclusions (#litres_trial_promo)
31. From Ancient Grudge Break to New Mutiny (#litres_trial_promo)
50 Days Till Zero Hour (#litres_trial_promo)
32. Closing the Net (#litres_trial_promo)
33. Playing with Fire (#litres_trial_promo)
34. The Sum of Our Parts (#litres_trial_promo)
35. Going Underground (#litres_trial_promo)
36. Sin City (#litres_trial_promo)
37. By a Thread (#litres_trial_promo)
38. Joining Up the Dots (#litres_trial_promo)
39. Prime Suspect (#litres_trial_promo)
40. Paved with Good Intentions (#litres_trial_promo)
41. Undercurrents (#litres_trial_promo)
42. Fathers4Truth (#litres_trial_promo)
49 Days Till Zero Hour (#litres_trial_promo)
43. The Dark Horizon (#litres_trial_promo)
44. Three Musketeers (#litres_trial_promo)
45. Final Edition (#litres_trial_promo)
46. It Never Rains… (#litres_trial_promo)
47. Time Waits for No Man (#litres_trial_promo)
48. Behind the Curtain (#litres_trial_promo)
49. Pieces of the Puzzle (#litres_trial_promo)
50. Deadline (#litres_trial_promo)
51. … It Pours (#litres_trial_promo)
52. Headlong (#litres_trial_promo)
53. Leaving on a Jet Plane (#litres_trial_promo)
54. Guilty Parties (#litres_trial_promo)
55. Hold the Front Page (#litres_trial_promo)
56. We Take Care of Our Own (#litres_trial_promo)
57. Hot Off the Press (#litres_trial_promo)
58. After the Horse Has Bolted (#litres_trial_promo)
59. What Might Have Been Lost (#litres_trial_promo)
60. Homecoming (#litres_trial_promo)
Two Days Later (#litres_trial_promo)
61. Post-Mortem (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue: Three Farewells (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue: Two Prisoners (#litres_trial_promo)
46 Days Till Zero Hour (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
MEMORANDUM
From: Office of the Director of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Subject: Revised classifications of the British governmental departments
Security: TOP SECRET
PROLOGUE
CROWTHORNE, BERKSHIRE
In the village of Crowthorne is an alarm.
A direct copy of a World War Two air-raid siren, it is bright red, and sits atop a pole two metres above the ground.
The alarm is connected by an underground network of wires to Broadmoor Hospital, the sprawling estate of red-brick buildings that sits above the village, and which is home to almost three hundred of the United Kingdom’s most dangerous, damaged citizens.
It is designed to alert anyone within a twenty-five-mile radius to an escape from the hospital, and has been sounded only five times in earnest in more than fifty years.
