Basierend auf der Erfolgsserie Dark Angel" folgt hier die Vorgeschichte: das Leben der jungen Max im Los Angeles des Jahres 2019.

Informationen zum Autor Max Allan Collins has earned an unprecedented ten Private Eye Writers of America Shamus nominations for his historical thrillers! winning twice for his Nathan Heller novels! True Detective and Stolen Away . A Mystery Writers of America Edgar nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories! Collins has written five suspense novel series! film criticism! short fiction! songwriting! trading-card sets! and movie/TV tie-in novels! including Air Force One ! The Mummy Returns ! the New York Times bestselling Saving Private Ryan ! CSI: Double Dealer (from the CBS series)! and The Scorpion King . He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip Dick Tracy from 1977 to 1993 and has written the Batman comic book and newspaper strip. His graphic novel! Road to Perdition ! has been made into a DreamWorks feature film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman! directed by Sam Mendes. Collins lives in Muscatine! Iowa! with his wife! writer Barbara Collins! and their teenage son! Nathan. Klappentext The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel! Los Angeles! 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids! agile as a cat! and an expert thief! Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody! her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of! Max longs for her missing "brothers and sisters" from Manticore! the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control. By chance! Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle! known to everyone as "Eyes Only." The police are searching for his accomplice! a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth! one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal! greed! revenge! and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past-and seize hope for the future. . . . COLD PURSUIT MANTICORE HEADQUARTERS GILLETTE, WYOMING, 2009 Her bare feet pounding, breaking the crust of ice on the snow-packed ground, her thin blue hospital-style smock hiked high over pumping legs, nine-year-old X5-unit 332960073452 barely noticed the February cold. Neither did she have any knowledge that in other parts of the United States, Valentine's Day was less than forty-eight hours away; that was part of a mundane, ordinary life as unknown to her as her controlled existence had been to the outside world. Though she had learned much at Manticore, all the girl knew, at this moment, was that she was running for her life. The deafening whir of choppers circling overhead did not cause her to look up, and she avoided the wide white beams of searchlights that probed, slashed the remote Manticore facility, turning the gloomy woods into a haunted house of light, dark, and shadow. Brunette locks shaved down to a severe concentration-camp buzz cut, she was small, but not skinny--lean, lithe, wiry . . . and, though unmistakably a child, already battle-hard. Her dark olive complexion gave her a tiny advantage over some of the others, the ones so white they practically glowed when the searchlights neared them, ghosts in the haunted house. Her eyes were large and dark, and she might have been referred to as doe-eyed if there hadn't been something lethal glinting in there, something almost predatory in the way those orbs took in whole scenes and missed no detail. Sprinting through the woods, she didn't breathe hard, didn't even sweat, as--machinelike--she pumped her arms ...

Autorentext
Max Allan Collins has earned an unprecedented ten Private Eye Writers of America Shamus nominations for his historical thrillers, winning twice for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective and Stolen Away. A Mystery Writers of America Edgar nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, Collins has written five suspense novel series, film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, trading-card sets, and movie/TV tie-in novels, including Air Force One, The Mummy Returns, the New York Times bestselling Saving Private Ryan, CSI: Double Dealer (from the CBS series), and The Scorpion King.

He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip Dick Tracy from 1977 to 1993 and has written the Batman comic book and newspaper strip. His graphic novel, Road to Perdition, has been made into a DreamWorks feature film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, directed by Sam Mendes.

Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their teenage son, Nathan.

Klappentext

The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel!

Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing "brothers and sisters" from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control.

By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as "Eyes Only." The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past-and seize hope for the future. . . .

Zusammenfassung
*The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel!

• **Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing “brothers and sisters” from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control.

  By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as “Eyes Only.” The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past—and seize hope for the future. . . .

  Leseprobe
  COLD PURSUIT

  MANTICORE HEADQUARTERS

  GILLETTE, WYOMING, 2009

  Her bare feet pounding, breaking the crust of ice on the snow-packed ground, her thin blue hospital-style smock hiked high over pumping legs, nine-year-old X5-unit 332960073452 barely noticed the February cold. Neither did she have any knowledge that in other parts of the United States, Valentine's Day was less than forty-eight hours away; that was part of a mundane, ordinary life as unknown to her as her controlled existence had been to the outside world.

  Though she had learned much at Manticore, all the gir…