by Jeff Sampson
With the guards much too easily eliminated, the Deviants bust down the door to Super Holding Cell E1.
21:45:02 PST—Super Holding Cell E1
In the corner of the padded room, contained by a straitjacket clasped with reinforced steel buckles, is an individual identified as:
—Dalton McKinney, Branch B’s Vesper 3 (designated “Deviant”)
White male, 16 years old
Vesper 1(B) runs to the boy’s side and struggles with the locks. Vesper 3(B) watches blankly as she works the fasteners, while the other two Deviants watch from thenhyju7nhyju7nhyju7
nhyju7nhyj
u7nhyju7n nhyju7[;p0-
‘]
/[;n
dszk468iouy tiyowtraioy*()^&
!~ijbkd/?<%$Eeilorutjih
dsakjlsadkjsadkjlsdjkladsakjldsjkluwierotczuxio
ewuro48357HDJKUIEWRERWIUOEEUWIROåquirwø
ÔÓبˆÁiyˆÁ¨ˇˇ¨‰Áˇˇˇˇ¨ˇ^Áˆ˙©°åßdfskhfhkdsdfjsh
0000ˆ¨øøˆ¨ˆ¨øˆ¨ø¨ˆøˆø¨ˆø¨ˆ¨ø¨¥ˆ¨¥ˆ¨¥ˆ¶•ª¶•ª¶•ª•¶ª•¶ª
JJJ/#
slkdj¶•ª¶•ª¶•ª•¶ª•¶ªffgfgcfgds shjEJKFKL51412
8KIJ7HIUWGø¨ˆ¨
Hi there! Emily Webb here. A few minutes ago there was a woman here, watching movies and typing stuff. I think her name is Limon, and apparently she’s been watching surveillance videos, transcribing them, and then sending them off for review. I caught her in the midst of this one. She seemed surprised to see me, since it’s been a few days since we escaped. Currently Limon is running down a hallway, screaming obscenities at some friends of mine and clutching her forehead where I slammed her head against this keyboard. Quite a mouth on that one.
Also, you guys have some super-resilient computer equipment.
So I’ve been looking through these papers you guys have in here. There are lots and lots of details on me. You guys are basically obsessed. I mean, really, transcribing my every move through your facility? Stalker much?
Well, let me finish this one for you. After a long, exhausting trek through your mazelike buildings, and after knocking out your guards (those guys deserve a raise), we finally found Dalton. He hasn’t been quite right in the head since … Well, you know. The poor boy has been through a lot.
What Ms. Limon was about to type above was probably something like this:
VesperEmily: Dalton, it’s Emily. It’s me. We have to get out of here, okay? We need to run.
DeviantDalton: It’s too late.
VesperEmily: What is?
DeviantDalton: It’s too late, Emily. They’re already here. We’ve already lost.
Something you probably learned about me watching these tapes: I don’t like to lose. So I think I’m done letting you read what happened to me. Done letting you watch me from the safety of your observation rooms.
So I’m going to hit send and let this go where it’s supposed to go. Just know, from now on, Vesper Co.? It’s you who gets to be in the dark. Let’s see how you like it.
See you soon!
Hugs and kisses,
Emily
Part 6 of Relevant Video Footage Concluded
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JEFF SAMPSON is the author of VESPER, the first book in the Deviants series. He is also a pop-culture fanatic with an abiding love of TV and movies, much like his main character, Emily. Jeff lives in Tukwila, Washington. You can visit him online at www.jeffsampsonbooks.com.
Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors and artists.
OTHER WORKS
VESPER
A DEVIANTS NOVEL
CREDITS
Cover art © 2012 by Ali Smith
COPYRIGHT
Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Havoc: A Deviants Novel
Copyright © 2012 by Jeff Sampson
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
www.epicreads.com
* * *
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sampson, Jeff.
Havoc : a Deviants novel / Jeff Sampson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: After genetic engineering endows sixteen-year-old Emily and her friends with superpowers and changes them into werewolves, the teenagers set off on a dangerous mission to find the people who made them what they are, and to discover why.
ISBN 978-0-06-199278-0
EPub Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062101945
[1. Werewolves—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Genetic engineering—Fiction. 4. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S164Hav 2012
[Fic]—dc23
2011022898
CIP
AC
* * *
11 12 13 14 15 LP/BV 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
First Edition
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pvt. Ltd.
25 Ryde Road (P.O. Box 321)
Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia
www.harpercollins.com.au
Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor
Toronto, ON, M4W, 1A8, Canada
http://www.harpercollins.ca
New Zealand
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited
P.O. Box 1
Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.harpercollins.co.nz
United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
77–85 Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8JB, UK
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk
United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
http://www.harpercollins.com