The Good, The Bad and The Undead. Ким Харрисон

      

      The Good, The Bad and the Undead

      Kim Harrison

       Copyright

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      Published by Voyager 2006

      Copyright © Kim Harrison 2005

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      Source ISBN: 9780007236114

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2010 ISBN: 9780007301874

      Version: 2019-02-01

       To the man who knows caffeine comes first,

       chocolate comes second, romance comes third—

       and when they ought to be reversed

      Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Fourteen

       Fifteen

       Sixteen

       Seventeen

       Eighteen

       Nineteen

       Twenty

       Twenty-One

       Twenty-Two

       Twenty-Three

       Twenty-Four

       Twenty-Five

       Twenty-Six

       Twenty-Seven

       Twenty-Eight

       Twenty-Nine

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgements

       By Kim Harrison

       About the Publisher

       One

      I hitched the canvas strap holding the watering canister higher up on my shoulder and stretched to get the nozzle into the hanging plant. Sunlight streamed in, warm through my blue institutional jumpsuit. Past the narrow plate-glass windows was a small courtyard surrounded by VIP offices. Squinting from the sun, I squeezed the handle of the watering hose, and the barest hint of water hissed through.

      There was a burst of clattering computer keys, and I moved to the next plant down. Phone conversation filtered in from the office past the reception desk, accompanied by a belly laugh that sounded like the bark of a dog. Weres. The higher up in the pack they were, the more human looking they managed, but you could always tell when they laughed.

      I glanced