Jokertown Shuffle: by George R. R. Martin

Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, fantasy
ISBN: 9781250168108
Google: 4qlbDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 39863616
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 1991-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

After a few years, he realized he didn’t know what to call himself anymore. It had been years since anyone had called him by his real name, which was Neil Carton Langford. The last anyone had heard of Neil was when Columbia tossed him out for not ever getting around to finishing his M.A. thesis. Black Shadow had been an outlaw for fourteen years. He’d been Wall Walker for a long time—it was his oldest surviving alias—but Wall Walker was too genial a personality for the kind of life he led most of the time. The other masks came and went, transient and short-lived.

Finally he settled on calling himself Shad. The name was simple and had a pleasant informal sound. It was a name that promised neither too much nor too little. He was pleased at finally figuring out what his name was.

No one, other than himself, called him by that name. Not that he knew of, anyway.

When he’d started out, there’d been other people whose line of business had either intersected his or complemented it. But Fortunato had gone off to Japan. Yeoman was gone, no one knew where. Croyd was asleep most of the time, and he was usually on the other side of the law, anyway.

Maybe it was time for Shad to hang up his cape. But if he did, who would be left to persecute the bad guys? All the public aces seemed to be engaged in lengthy public soap operas that didn’t have much to do with helping real people.

None of them had Shad’s expertise.

He might as well stay with it. He didn’t have a life anywhere else. Not since 1976, when he’d realized what lived inside him.

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