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    Lazarus
    Lazarus
    Lazarus
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    Lazarus

    By Nik Papageorgiou

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    On a colonised planet, Homicide Inspector Paul Blake breaks under the strain of his son’s death and slits his wrists in a bathtub. After two days dead, he wakes up in a hospital without so much as a scratch. And life will never be the same again.

    A year later. Blake investigates the brutal murder of a woman who worked for the world’s most powerful organisation, the GCMRD. Soon after, a colleague of hers confesses to her murder and commits suicide.

    Still reeling from the events, Blake receives a mysterious call from someone who calls himself Lazarus, and is suddenly exposed to the GCMRD’s most recent scientific achievement:

    Bringing back the dead.

    As the bodies begin to pile up, Blake finds that he is more involved than he originally thought – or remembered. Lazarus has a plan that seeks to make a new world on the ashes of the old one, a new world inhabited by those he brings back from the dead. And he couldn't have done it without Blake’s help.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNik Papageorgiou
    Release dateJan 21, 2013
    ISBN9781301216307
    Lazarus
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    Nik Papageorgiou

    I am an ex-biologist who now writes, writes, writes, and draws cartoons. Check-out my blog for more info: http://upmic.wordpress.com

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