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“200 is a wild, sexy, twisted, and darkly entertaining trip into the future and deep into the human psyche. Writer Jennifer Brody and artist Jules Rivera make a kickass team. Highly recommended!” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and Black Panther: Doomwar

It’s Eva Thorne’s 200th birthday.

But it’s not a celebration, more like a funeral. Eva lives in a world where the cure for aging and illness has been discovered and administered to every person on Earth. Only, there’s one big hitch. It turns out that very few people can handle immortality. So on their two hundredth birthday, they have to take a test. If they pass, they get to live forever. But if they fail, they must be euthanized.

Eva’s not an optimist. She’s pretty sure she’s going to fail her Centurial Assessment Test. For starters, almost nobody passes anymore. She’s seen the news stories. But more than that, Eva can tell that she’s already starting to slip mentally. Ever since the Escorts took her husband Owen away for his test and he never came back, she’s been chainsmoking cigarettes (they can’t kill her after all), binge drinking, and waiting for the Escorts to get it over with already.

Who wants to live forever if you have to do it alone?

Here’s the truth―Owen was her husband for over 170 years. He was her soulmate. Her lover. Her goofball best friend. Her partner in crime. Her everything. But on the way to her testing room, Eva glimpses a staffer who resembles her husband.

Suddenly, she has to find out the truth about what happened to him. Suddenly, she has a reason to live. Did he pass his test? Does he get to live forever? Can Eva join him for this next part of their lives? Or is she destined to fail her test and be euthanized?

Now Eva must escape from the testing facility and find out if her husband passed his test―and what he’s been doing for the past six months. With the Escorts hunting her down, she kidnaps the staffer and drags him to the roof, discovering that it’s Owen―only he can’t remember her because they wiped his memory. When you pass your CAT test, you must leave your old life behind. Eva must now find a way for him to remember their life together or lose him forever to his new immortal existence.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	16 février 2021
Nombre de lectures	10
EAN13	9781684424245
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	37 Mo

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Jennifer
BRODY
J u l e s
RIVERA
Turner
Publishing Company
Nashville, Tennessee
4507 Charlotte Ave
Nashville, TN 37209
www.turnerpublishing.
com
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Copyright © 2020 Jennifer
Brody and Jules Rivera. All
rights reserved.
This book or any part thereof
may not be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or
by any means, electronic
or mechanical, including
photocopying, recording, or
by any information storage
and retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the
publisher.
This is a work of fiction. All the
characters and events portrayed
in this book are either products of
the author s imagination or are used
fictitiously.
Cover design: Jules Rivera
Art: Jules Rivera
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
Publication Data
Names: Brody, Jennifer. Rivera Jules
Title: Spectre Deep 6
Description: Nashville : Turner Publishing
Company, [2020] |
Identifiers: ISBN 9781684424245 (ebook)
| ISBN 9781684424221 (pbk.) | ISBN
9781684424238 (hardcover)
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.
gov/2018049260
9781684424221 Paperback
9781684424238 Hardcover
9781684424245 eBook
Printed in the United States of America
17 18 19 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
TABLE
of
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
5
CHAPTER 1
11
CHAPTER 2
27
CHAPTER 3
37
CHAPTER 4
57
CHAPTER 5
74
CHAPTER 6
106
EPILOGUE
121
EXTRAS
124
200: Short Story
137

PROLOGUE
The Rampages
Too long
too long
too long!
6
It s a
rampage!
Somebody
stop him!
7
8
END OF
PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1
The Bucket List
I ve lived 200 years.
I don t know if I ll get
any more time. Back
before the Cure, I might
have said something like
it s in God s hands.
Or whatever the
Universe wills if you re
not the religious type.
I m not.
I know who will determine
my lifespan, and it s not
God or the Universe.
It s the Millennials.
Happy
birthday,
asshole.
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Eva
Thorne?
Eva Lucia
Thorne?
Why
bother
asking when
you re gonna
scan me
anyway?
Owen...
Don t
sugarcoat
it. It s my
funeral
and you
know it.
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Mrs. Thorne, I assure
you it s not a funeral.
Only an assessment
test. If you pass, you ll
be granted more time.
Endless time, as a
matter of fact.
How many
have you
escorted
back from
their tests?
Really??
How many?
Out of
how many?
Hundreds?
Thousands?
Tens of
thousands?
...
I ve had the
pleasure of
helping three
Centurials
transition to
their new
status as
Millennials--
--As
you
wish,
Eva.
Your
funeral
it is.
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... A stunner.
Shit, they re
not playing.
I ve read that some
people try to run.
Hence the escorts.
If you run, the
Escorts will hunt you
down. And you ll lose
your only chance to
become a Millennial...
I m happy to be getting on
with it. Hell, I m ready to go.
... as infinitesmal as
that chance might be.
What re we waiting
for?? Let s get this
show on the road!
Wheeeeeeee!
Who smiles
on their way
to the CAT??
Someone
whose time is
running out.
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The last thing
I did with Owen was
write a Bucket List.
It s the only thing left to do when
your chroniker is ticking up.
Eva, you still reading
that creepy death
book of yours?
Hey, the test
coming up. I don t
wanna waste time.
Can you stop
thinking about
that test?
For one
damn
minute??
You re going
first.
You think that s
easy for me?
All I wanted was to
have one normal night,
without that axe hanging
over our heads!
Is that too
much to ask??
I don t know
what to do! I
don t know
how to let
you go!
Eva,
please. I m
here now.
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It s crazy.
There s still so
much I want to
do.
We ll do it all.
Together.
I promise.
Dr. Browning, you re saying
the CAT is a good thing?
Even with its low pass rate?
A happy
accident, really.
It s a blessing
to know how
much time you
have so you can
make the most
of it.
The Cure
grants you
two hundred
years free
from aging
and illness.
Not
everyone can
handle living
forever, but
maybe one day,
we ll find a Cure
that works for
everyone.
But until then,
my book eases
the transition.
Transition??
Pfft!
Why doesn t he call
it what it really is?
It s a death
sentence!
You don t
know that.
You could
pass!
Almost
nobody passes
anymore. You ve
seen the reports.
A few do.
A
lucky
few.
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Aww...
You re right.
I am lucky.
Lucky I ve got you to celebrate my
last year. I m about to turn two
hundred. Let s do it up in style!
Gimme the
book.
But you
hate Dr.
Browning.
You think
he s full of
shit.
He is full of
shit. But a
bucket list
sounds fun.
You re serious?
You want to do it?
Everything you always wanted?
But never got aroound to doing? Every
fantasy? Every wish? Every dream?
Who
wouldn t
want that?
So what
should we
do first?
Let s do Tokyo!
The past. 2018.
You re such
a nerd,
Owen.
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EVA LUCIA THORNE S BUCKET
1. Travel virtually to Tokyo 2018 with Owen
Virtual Vacations are hella pricey, but you can t take it with you
2. Take up smoking--it can t kill me, after all
I d abstained for Owen, since he hated the smell, but I knew he d
let it slide now
3. Have sex with nubile sub-Centurials
Owen made me ccross this one off the list-- and really I d only
included it to get a rise out of him.
4. Not talk about the CAT anymore. Not think
about the CAT anymore. Fuck the CAT!
OWEN THORNE S BUCKET LIST
1. Travel virtually to Tokyo 2018 with Eva
It ll drain our savings, but who cares? YOLO
2. Base jump off the tallest building
So what if I have a fear of heights?
okay... wait... what am I thinking? I hate heights.
3. Learn to Hoverboard
It s like surfing on air - Eva s been bugging me for years.
4. Forget that I have one year left until my
200th birthday... and it s all over
And I ll never get to look in Eva s beautiful eyes again.
Welcome to Take Wing
Virtual Vacations! We
take you to anywhere...
any time!
Here are our
packages for
Tokyo 2018.
This is with the
Bucket List
discount applied.
Wow,
that s still
a lot of
money.
Can t
take it
with you,
right?
Reality
level? Safe
and pain
free?
Most
select
that
option.
Give us
authentic!
No risk, no
reward!
You ve selected Tokyo 2018. a
great destination. Long enough
after Fukushima, but before the
Global Pandemic of 2020.
This is the world
before The Cure.
Before people would
know how long they d
live--and how they d die.
I knew the trip
wasn t real.
It was just the
memory of a world
that had long since
passed into oblivion.
I m dizzy...
too high!
Don t be such
a wuss! You
can t base
jump like this.
But it felt real
all the same.
What if they
catch us? We chose
authentic.
What, is some virtual
cop gonna throw us
in a virtual slammer?
The food, the
sights, the sounds,
they all felt so real.
Even the cakes
tasted better.
22
23
Only one
item left...
base jumping.
Maybe next
time?
But
Owen,
time s
running
out.
I said I didn t want
to talk about the
damn CAT!
How can we
not talk about
it? It s almost
here! Damn it,
I m not ready!
Owen
Thorne?
We re here
to escort
you to the
CAT.
Owen!
Oweeeeeeen!
Noooo!
Two hundred years
feels like it s forever...
...until it s not.
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