MY NAME IS DRAKE RIORDAN. I AM A PRIVATE DETECTIVE.
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It is Chicago in the spring of 1944. It had been two years since the Blood Pox spread around the world killing a half of a billion people and effectively ending the Second World War. It had been one year since the disease hit here in Chicago killing a million of my fellow citizens. The bodies of dead were gathered and sent to Navy Pier, which has been converted to a vast crematorium. There the bodies are burned and the ashes deposited into Lake Michigan.

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In this new world, we have new words. "Scar" is the word most people use for someone who has caught the Pox and lived to talk about it. It comes from the scars a Pox survivor will bear for the rest of their lives. Now there's a saying that goes; "These days everybody ends up as either Scars or Ashes".
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The world may have changed, but life goes on. I am working on a new case. A new client, a beautiful woman doctor, has hired me to find her missing sister. Little did I know that before the case is over, it will lead me on a long and dangerous path through the deserted streets and the silent houses of this ravaged city. I will make new friends and face new and deadly enemies. I will uncover the most terrifying secret of our time.
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The only way to find where and how this path will end is to follow it. I walk out the door and into a city filled with:
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SCARS OR ASHES.

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• Publication Date: July 17, 2016
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