-In this episode: For street mediators and their watchers, life and death lives in a shot glass placed over a smashed steel slug. Only one among their ranks can wrap up the story of the Failed Cities. The Maven is about to have the last word, and if you've come this f

-In this episode: A good hustler knows when to get out of town. A good con woman leaves on their own terms. And a femme fatale does it in style...

-In this episode: What's the difference between being heroism and self-preservation? Just ask Valeri Klimenko. While the whole city celebrates him as the man who caught notorious serial killer The Conductor, the constable-turned-detective sits in his darkened apartmen

-In this episode: Fera's past is written in her own scarred flesh. Tonight, watching her lifeblood run slowly into the gutters of the Failed Cities, hear that history recounted by Fera's own mind as she battles the one enemy that has threatened her for so long like no

-In this episode: Tonight's the night. Truck's sharpening his blade to a razor edge, and a chance meeting with the reluctant Detective Klimenko has provided the set-up for him to carve out the revenge he's been chasing after at a 100 miles an hour . . .

-In this episode: Tonight, as street preachers poise for war, Rastafarian soldiers pray for battle, and The Stacks prepare for Judgment Day, Sterne is just trying to write the end of his novel before The Feral Twins write the end on him. And it's anybody's guess who'l

-In this episode: Sometimes things go wrong. Sometimes dead wrong. But for the first time in their storied and bloody careers, Ferus is the one making decisions for The Feral Twins. His strength has always been their deadliest weapon, but only when guided by his siste

-In this episode: There's no chapter in the Steel Gospel on the apocalypse, but that's exactly what the street preachers are facing tonight: Their own personal end of times. As blood and fire threaten to engulf Ethan, his brethren, and their city, the question isn't w

-In this episode: You're not the only one invested in the story of The FailedCities. The Nicodemus Consortium is very interested in what's been happeningon both sides of the river, and one of their best operatives is about togive them a full report. Be warned that the

-In this episode: What do you do when your life and your livelihood both dependon words and your voice has been locked away inside your own head? For TheMaven, the answer to that question lies inward. And the only thing worsethan searching for it is finding out what's

-In this episode: Interlude or prelude. When it's a romantic encounter with d'Anger you can never be sure which you're caught up in. Learning about her past, however, you might know which to expect . . .

-In this episode: A new detective's shield, an old suit, and a lethal case no one else wants. It's not the way Valeri Klimenko, the former constable, wants to start out his night. But they may have all underestimated this simple young man from the Ukraine, who's been

-In this episode: Fera and her brother have murdered, maimed, and massacred on every continent across the globe, but it's the hard, ugly lessons she learned as a girl that command Fera's pathology. When her intended victim for the night is snatched away by a resourcef

-In this episode: Truck lives for the action, for life on the edge of a blade. But when a routine pick-up goes a hundred miles south of wrong, that pace comes to a crashing halt...

-In this episode: Jump into the story with Sterne. He's about to live one of his own pulp adventures, but unlike Curly, his fearless juggernaut alter ego, Sterne is going to find out that the real bad guys don't wear hats. And his instructors for the evening? The Fera

-In this episode: Boredom's a dangerous thing when you're one of The Feral Twins, and not even arson, kidnapping, and back alley crucifixions can relieve it. Ferus just wants one worthy opponent before the night is through. He's forgotten what the Chinese say about wh

-In this episode: Reverend Ethan is a man who likes to keep things simple: a collar, a street to keep, a stick to keep them with. But tonight, with war looming just around a battered brick corner, things are about to get complicated. A missing mediator, a fallen stree

-In this episode: If you're new to the Failed Cities, there's only one place to go if you want to be in the know, and it's not some digital Orwellian info-matrix. It's a tiny tarot den in the shadiest part of town. Psychic Sally is a palm-reader with a third eye on al

-In this episode: When fevered streets reach their boiling point, you bring in a mediator. When it's looking like back alley war, you need a maven. Tonight was already going to be his toughest mediation yet. Then his throat got put on the bargaining table...

-In this episode: In the Failed Cities, being beautiful can make you a victim. Being beautiful and smart can make you dangerous. d'Anger has a flawlessform, a Botticelli face...and an IQ of 175...

-In this episode: Constable Valeri Klimenko, whose father and grandfather were both Heroes of Ukraine, never had any intention of living up to his family's legacy. Now he's been made a detective and forced onto the trail of the most feared and talked about serial kill

-In this episode: Fera, alpha female of The Feral Twins. Death lives inside her, and it's a reality she shares with all those she meets, whether they want its secrets or not. But is Fera a predator...or just the ultimate survivor?

-In this episode: The news webs call him The Conductor. He's responsible for the disappearances of at least thirty young women, all prostitutes. Their bodies are never found. And oh, yes, you're about to discover why...

-In this episode: Walk the streets between the Stacks with Sterne, a pit fighter that splits his nights between brawling for cash and spinning tales of old school tough guys and detectives. The Stacks is considered nothing more than a neo hippie ghetto. But to the fol