This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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THE BLOOD RED CITY. Copyright © 2014 by Justin Richards. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Richards, Justin, author.

Title: The blood red city / Justin Richards.

Description: First U.S. edition. | New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2016. | 2014 | Series: Never War, book 2

Identifiers: LCCN 2015043226 | ISBN 9781250059215 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781466863781 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945—Fiction. | Human-alien encounters— Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Military. | FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure. | FICTION / Alternative History. | GSAFD: Alternative histories (Fiction) | Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6118.I365 B58 2016 | DDC 823/.92—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043226

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First published in Great Britain by Del Ray, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, a Penguin Random House Group company

First U.S. Edition: March 2016

e-ISBN 9781466863781