Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

computer banks after she was killed, using the first cryoatom-slicerin North America. She had managed to escapehim into Angel space long before he was able to understandthe full significance of what his labs had invented. Partiallythru her efforts there were too many others able to producethe machines and he was unable to control the gates ofheaven as he desired.He was still a malevolent force in all of Laurentia south ofthe St. Lawrence, an ancient cyborg who had imported thefirst of the Brazilian pills at any cost. He was one of therichest and most powerful men on Earth, but he initiallychose to make his residence in the hills near Scranton becauseit would never be suspected, and he had near total control ofso large an area, thru the judges and their constables. Thecorruption in the southern provinces was one of the biggestproblems facing Laurentia when she was mortal.South of the Potomac, Dallas was still trying toconsolidate it’s position as the capital of the new RepublicanStates, Denver, Atlanta and even Charlotte were claiming theywere really the new capital because they had largereconomies than Dallas.None of it mattered any more. From what she knew,Hartford was the largest urban center in North America thathad not been slagged by a meteor, Syracuse was next, thenScranton. All the modern cities in the west were gone, eventhose as small as Medford and Carson City. The Angels evenslagged Washington, though there was nothing left there but384