00 Before Dawn

the rule of heroes

the deal

For the better part of two decades, Lidrian's Barge was the notorious gathering place for the community of rogues, pirates and undesirables, the "foreign powers" and the watchmen who watch them

the game

"My very dear," said the corpulent, indolent voice, "I shall call you Pandora, and you can address me as Mr Monkfish, and then we will both be quite clear that neither of us is who we say we are."

the stakes

Before dawn on 16 July 1945, at a site in the Jornada del Muerto Desert, New Mexico, a new age began. Its sign was a light, never meant to be seen in nature,