| Dark Angel: Before the Dawn | |
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| Book Name: | Dark Angel: Before the Dawn |
| Author: | Max Allan Collins |
| Publisher: | Del Rey; Reissue edition |
| Release Date: | October 1, 2002 |
| Pages: | 271 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-345-45182-8 |
| Preceded By: | None |
| Followed By: | Dark Angel: Skin Game |
Synopsis[edit | edit source]
Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of The Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max Guevara/X5-452 steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing "brothers and sisters" from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control. By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as "Logan Cale." The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past, and seize hope for the future. . . .
Characters[edit | edit source]
- Logan Cale
- Seth
- Max Guevara
- Lucy Barrett
- Hannah Sukova
- Original Cindy
- Donald Lydecker
- Kendra Maibaum
- Normal
- Sketchy
- Herbal Thought
- Kavi (mentioned only)
- Vada (mentioned only)