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       Three Kings

       A WILD CARDS MOSAIC NOVEL

       Edited by Melinda M. Snodgrass

       Assisted by George R.R. Martin

      And written by

      Mary Anne Mohanraj | Peter Newman

      Peadar Ó Guilín | Melinda M. Snodgrass | Caroline Spector

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       Copyright

      HarperVoyager

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020

      Copyright © George R.R. Martin and the Wild Cards Trust 2020

      Jacket design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020

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      George R.R. Martin and the Wild Cards Trust 2020 asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008361488

      Ebook Edition © May 2020 ISBN: 9780008361501

      Version: 2020-04-16

       Dedication

       for Tom Doherty,

       Lord of the Tor,

       who brought our universe back to life

       our aces thank you

       our jokers thank you

       and all our writers thank you

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Saturday February 29th

      Sunday March 1st

      Monday March 2nd

      Tuesday March 3rd

       Wednesday March 4th

       Thursday March 5th

       Friday March 6th

       Saturday March 7th

       Sunday March 8th

       Monday March 9th

       Tuesday March 10th

       Wednesday March 11th

       Thursday March 12th

       Friday March 13th

       Saturday March 14th

       Epilogue

       Closing Credits

       The Wild Cards Universe

       About the Publisher

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       F ASCINATING.

      It should have been impossible to ambush Badb, Goddess of War. Every crow in Belfast lent her their senses. She soared over a bleeding city, from one pocket of violence to the next. From the women shaving the head of a weeping collaborator to the screams of a man shot through the back of the knees. The city had half the population it should have had. Its buildings crumbled, paint flaking away except from slogans that every day were refreshed: ‘NOT AN INCH!’ ‘BRITS OUT!’ ‘NO NATS HERE!’

      She had caused it all. Manipulating the angry; creating heroes and renewing herself through their sacrifice.

      But she hadn’t expected this.

      Three teenaged boys with hurley sticks caught her in an alleyway.

      ‘Hand it over!’ cried the nearest, his voice breaking mid-sentence. He had blonde hair and a shamrock tattoo that might get him killed only three streets from here.

      Behind him, a second boy, darker this time, pushed forward. ‘Yeah!’ he cried. ‘We want all of it!’ Despite the braggadocio, this was their first robbery. Badb could tell such things. Their knuckles were white on the wood of the hurls. Their Adam’s apples bobbed and bobbed.

      ‘Let

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