Goon Squad #2

By Jonathan L. Howard

Puppet Girl has been inducted into the Goon Squad -- Manchester's Special Talents Response Team -- but is very much on probation. When her first time in the field goes badly wrong, it looks like her new career might be over before it has even started. But she has one champion who will stand up for her and who suggests a new course of inquiry that might just save the investigation. Plus, as a bonus, it involves hitting the nightclubs.

Find out what happens in GOON SQUAD #2 "Nightclubbing."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan L. Howard
• Release date: Feb 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310135880

Jonathan L. Howard

JONATHAN L. HOWARD is a game designer, scriptwriter, and a veteran of the computer-games industry since the early nineties, with titles such as the Broken Sword series to his credit. He is author of Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Johannes Cabal the Detective, and Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, as well as the YA novels Katya’s World and Katya’s War. He lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and daughter.

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GOON SQUAD #2

Nightclubbing

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Jonathan L. Howard

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Goon Squad #2 Nightclubbing

by Jonathan L. Howard

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Cover Illustration of Ian Mears (the Revenant) by Alwyn Talbot

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Goon Squad Issue #2

Nightclubbing

For most people, the first day on a new job is taken gently. There are usually a few forms to fill in, perhaps an ID picture to be taken, a short presentation by a nice person from Human Resources, and a little film about health and safety on site. It is highly unlikely that the neophyte employee will be abandoned in the middle of a container park where they will subsequently be confronted by a werewolf.

Nadiya Kysla's curriculum vita wasn't much like most people's, though. It was short, but interesting, detailing a decent degree from a Ukrainian art college, immediately followed by an extended membership of a notorious anarcho-terrorist group, then a brief term of incarceration, and finally a period of low profile temp work. Now she was a police officer of sorts, and less dismayed by the presence of a monster than would be the case with others with more conventional CVs.

The creature was big -- covered in shaggy dark red/brown fur -- probably standing two metres tall if it hadn't been crouched there, glaring at her. It was massive across the shoulders, and the fur did little to disguise the great muscles that worked beneath the skin. It was intelligent; she could see that in its eyes, and by the fact that it wore devices of some sort strapped to its forearms. Perhaps this was how Des Garbo turned into a monster, she thought. Perhaps the devices control his metamorphosis.

Then the monster started to run at her and