Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $9.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The City That Never Sleeps: A Tor.com Original
    The City That Never Sleeps: A Tor.com Original
    The City That Never Sleeps: A Tor.com Original
    Ebook49 pages1 hour

    The City That Never Sleeps: A Tor.com Original

    By Walton Simons

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    For over 25 years, the George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history.

    “There’s never a shortage of people other people want dead.” Spector felt on familiar footing now that he saw the entire game.

    All a hit man wants can be as simple as a bottle of bourbon and a time to dream, but when you're Spector, the work never ends, in Walton "Bud" Simons's Tor.com Original, The City That Never Sleeps.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 25, 2019
    ISBN9781250258601
    The City That Never Sleeps: A Tor.com Original

    Related to The City That Never Sleeps

    Titles in the series (16)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Warhammer 4ok: Rogue Trader

      Feb 21, 2023

      Warhammer 4ok: Rogue Trader
      5 min read

    • Article

      Shut Up

      Feb 21, 2023

      Shut Up
      6 min read

    • Article

      Gillian Anderson

      Dec 15, 2022

      Gillian Anderson
      14 min read

    • Article

      Run Win 10 forever

      Jul 22, 2024

      Run Win 10 forever
      7 min read

    • Article

      Free Fantasy

      Jul 2, 2020

      Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

      1 min read

    • Article

      Michael Moorcock

      Nov 30, 2022

      IN 1961, WHEN ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ MADE HIS first appearance, Michael Moorcock was a young man in a hurry. Fast forward 60-plus years and Moorcock’s new Elric novel The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths is shortly to be published. For all that Elric is one of

      3 min read

    • Article

      Bleat Child Of Mine

      Dec 1, 2021

      Bleat Child Of Mine
      3 min read

    • Article

      Parasite Lost

      Dec 1, 2021

      Parasite Lost
      3 min read

    • Article

      Valheim

      Dec 8, 2022

      Valheim
      5 min read

    • Article

      Remembering Steve Ditko: Forget Kirby Dots, Let's Talk Ditko Sparkles

      Jul 8, 2018

      The idiosyncratic co-creator of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and many lesser-known comics characters died last week. His distinctive storytelling style shaped generations of comics readers.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Why So Serious?

      Nov 28, 2021

      Why So Serious?
      10 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      May 20, 2022

      By Alastair Reynolds Reynolds is best known as an author of hard science-based space operas, yet his latest novel begins on board a ship sailing up the coastline of Norway in the early 19th century. The mystery deepens as the same group of people, on

      2 min read

    • Article

      First Contact

      Sep 6, 2023

      First Contact
      1 min read

    • Article

      Child Of Light

      Oct 6, 2021

      Child Of Light
      1 min read

    • Article

      Zero Sievert

      Feb 21, 2023

      Zero Sievert
      5 min read

    • Article

      Bill And The Tooth Fairy

      Mar 10, 2021

      Bill believed in the Tooth Fairy. Big deal, you’re thinking. Lots of kids believe in the Tooth Fairy. Well, Bill wasn’t a kid. He was twenty-eight years old. You don’t believe it. My girlfriend Mary Beth didn’t believe it, either. We were having dinn

      15 min read

    • Article

      Shards Of Earth

      May 19, 2021

      Shards Of Earth
      2 min read

    • Article

      The History Of God Games

      Apr 18, 2023

      The History Of God Games
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Top 10: Wizards

      Jul 9, 2021

      The Top 10: Wizards
      2 min read

    • Article

      Infinity Gate

      Mar 22, 2023

      Infinity Gate
      2 min read

    • Article

      Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Series Is Joyous Dad-Joke Fantasy

      Aug 16, 2019

      Robert Asprin's rollicking Myth Adventures books get their laughs from whimsy, lightheartedness, buddy-movie banter, and, um, comic myth-understandings. They're a welcome antidote to grimmer series.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Also Out

      Jul 15, 2020

      Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

      1 min read

    • Article

      Dark Alliance

      Jan 28, 2020

      Dark Alliance
      2 min read

    • Article

      Pleasure Palace

      Sep 1, 2022

      Pleasure Palace
      15 min read

    • Article

      Excerpts From The Works Of The 2024 Whiting Award Winners

      Apr 10, 2024

      The 2024 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Below are excerpts from their work.

      19 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The City That Never Sleeps

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The City That Never Sleeps - Walton Simons

      New York, New York

      December, 1986

      Spector knew he was being followed. The tail was a young man who clearly wasn’t up to the job. His dumbass shadow was well groomed, had a nice blue suit, and was keeping in back of him by about thirty feet. Spector paused at the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth, the cold wind whipping his lank hair. New York City at Christmastime wasn’t as bad as it was in January, but it was still no picnic. A trio of Salvation Army folks sang God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, but not very well. There was an A&P a couple of blocks away. If the person following him came inside looking for Spector that would be his mistake; if not, Spector would do some grocery shopping.

      He’d been back in the city for less than two weeks. After Wild Card Day he’d decided Manhattan was just too dangerous for him. Lots of people wound up dead that day, including big-name aces like the Howler and the Astronomer and some lesser known ones like the dino kid. Spector had done the Astronomer himself, feeding his former boss’s his death memory hard and fast, and leaving the old bastard’s corpse fused inside a brick wall. That helped him sleep a little easier, but there were still plenty of people who wanted him dead again, not to mention the politicians and cops who were howling for the blood of the aces who’d brought terror to their fair city.

      So Demise had gone back to Teaneck and laid low for a couple of months. Still, he needed a roof over his head and food on the table, so he’d done a few random jobs for the local mob. He’d told them he was a chemist with a drug that could simulate a heart attack. His employers weren’t particularly curious about his methods and paid on time. The rubouts weren’t enough for Spector to live well, but he kept them on a scale small enough that he didn’t draw much attention, either.

      He ducked into the A&P and moved quickly to his left and down an aisle. The place wasn’t crowded, which suited Spector to a T. He heard the door squeak open and knew the man had been dumb enough to follow him inside. Spector headed for a corner of the produce section where the lighting was poor. He heard slow, uncertain footfalls the next aisle over. Spector couldn’t figure why anyone who knew who he was would follow him, much less confront him. Unless the guy was an ace; that could be big

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1