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Law enforcement personnel categorize murderers on a scale of twenty-five levels of evil-from the naIve opportunists starting out at Level 1 to the organized, premeditated torture murderers who inhabit Level 25. But to an elite unnamed investigations group assigned to hunt down the worlds most dangerous killers, headed by Steve Dark, a new category of killer is being defined ...

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LEVEL 26
LEVEL 26

dark origins

anthony e. zuiker
with Duane Swierczynski

Picture 1

DUTTON
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

Published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Copyright 2009 by Anthony E. Zuiker
All rights reserved

Picture 2 REGISTERED TRADEMARK MARCA REGISTRADA

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Zuiker, Anthony E., 1968
Level 26: dark origins / by Anthony E. Zuiker; with Duane Swierczynski.
p. cm.(Level 26)
First ever interactive digi-novel.
ISBN: 1-101-13635-9
1. Serial murderersFiction. I. Swierczynski, Duane. II. Title.
PS3626.U35D37 2009
813'.6dc22 2009018109

Interior illustrations by Marc Ecko

PUBLISHERS NOTE

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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To Susan Kennedy, my new partner in crime

Contents

I t is well-known among law enforcement personnel that murderers can be categorized as belonging to one of twenty-five levels of evil, from the naive opportunists starting out at Level 1 to the organized, premeditated torture-murderers who inhabit Level 25.

What almost no one knowsexcept for the elite unnamed investigations group assigned to hunt down the worlds most dangerous killers, a group of men and women accounted for in no official ledgeris that a new category of killer is in the process of being defined. Only one man belongs to this group.

His targets:

Anyone.

His methods:

Unlimited.

His alias:

Sqweegel.

His classification:

Level 26.

PROLOGUE

the gift


Rome, Italy

T he monster was holed up somewhere in the church, and the agent knew he finally had him.

He removed his boots as quietly as he could and placed them beneath the wooden table in the vestibule. The boots were rubber soled, but even those could make some noise on the marble floors. So far, the monster didnt know he was being followedas far as the agent could tell.

The agent had been chasing the monster for three years. There were no photos of the monster, no physical evidence at all. Catching him was like trying to capture a wisp of smoke in your fist. The force of your action would cause it to dissipate and re-form elsewhere.

The hunt had taken him all over the world: Germany. Israel. Japan. The United States. And now here, Rome, inside a seventeenth-century baroque-style church christened Mater Dolorosa, which was Latin for sorrowful mother.

The name fit. The interior of the church was gloomy. With his gun in a two-hand grip, the agent moved as silently as possible along the yellowed walls.

A notice posted on the church door said it was closed to the public for renovations. The agent knew enough Italian to understand that the four-hundred-year-old fresco on the interior dome of the church was being restored.

Scaffolding. Gloom. Shadows. It was a natural habitat for the monster. No wonder hed chosen it, despite its being a sacred place of worship.

The agent had come to understand that the monster knew no boundaries. Even in times of war, churches and temples were considered places of sanctuarysafe havens for those seeking the comfort of God during their darkest hours.

And as the agent made his way around the metal poles and underside of the scaffolding, he knew the monster was here. He could feel it.

The agent was no believer in the supernatural; he did not claim to have psychic abilities. But the longer he hunted the monster, the more he found that he was able to tune in to his savage wavelength. This gift brought the agent closer than any other investigator to catching the monsterbut it came at a cost. The more he tuned his brain in to the monsters insanity, the more he lost touch with what it was like to be sane. He had recently begun to wonder whether his single-minded pursuit might soon kill him. Hed discarded the thought.

His focus had returned when the agent saw the most recent victim, just a few blocks away. The sight of the blood, the torn skin, the viscera steaming in the cool night air, and the marbled beads of fat hanging from exposed muscles would later send the first responders outside to vomit. Not the agent, who had knelt down and felt a thrilling burst of adrenaline when he touched the body through the thick latex of his examiners gloves and realized it was still warm.

It meant the monster was nearby.

The agent knew he wouldnt have gone far; the monster loved to hide himself and enjoy the aftermath of his work. He had even been known to secret himself within the scene while law enforcement cursed his name.

So the agent had stepped into the small courtyard near the victims body and let his mind wander. No deductive logic, no reasoned guesses, no gut, no hunch. Instead the agent thought: I am the monster; where do I go?

The agent had scanned the rooftops, then saw the glittering dome and knew immediately. There. Id go there. There was not a seed of doubt in the agents mind. This would end tonight.

Now he was moving silently among the wooden pews and the metal poles of the scaffolding, gun drawn, all of his physical senses on high alert. The monster might be smoke, but even smoke had a look, a scent, a taste.

The monster stared down at the top of his hunters head. He was positioned on the underside of a paint-splattered wooden plank, clinging to the gaps between the wood with his skinny, strong fingers and equally powerful toes.

He almost wanted his hunter to look up.

Many had chased the monster over the years, but none like this one. This one was special. Different.

And somehow, familiar.

So the monster wanted to look at his face again, in the flesh. Not that he didnt know what his hunters looked like. The monster had plenty of surveillance photos and footage of all of themat work, in their backyards, on the way to fill their vehicles with gasoline, bringing their children to sporting matches, and purchasing bottles of liquor. Hed been close enough to catalog their smells, the aftershave they wore, the brand of tequila they drank. It was a part of his game.

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