Authors: Michael Harvey
Tags: #Fiction, #Mystery & Detective, #Police Procedural, #Thrillers, #Suspense, #Hard-Boiled
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2011 by Michael Harvey
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harvey, Michael T.
We all fall down / Michael Harvey.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN
978-0-307-70043-8
1. Bioterrorism—Fiction. 2. Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction.
3. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. I. Title.
ps3608.a78917w4 2011
813'.6—dc22
2011004681
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover image © Corbis / Photolibrary Cover design by Henry Steadman
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Contents
Canary in a Cage
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Black Biology
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Quarantine
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Camp Chicago
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Loose Ends
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Epilogue
In memory of
Daniel Mendez
Ring around the rosy …
A pocket full of posies …
Ashes, ashes …
We all fall down.
A FOLK MEMORY OF THE BLACK DEATH,
SUNG BY CHILDREN IN THE STREETS OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON