Cazadores De Sombras 4

Also by Cassandra Clare THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass THE INFERNAL DEVICES Clockwork Angel

MARGARET K. McELDERRY BOOKS An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or reallocales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2011 by Cassandra Claire LLC All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. MARGARET K. MCELDERRY BOOKS is a trademark ofSimon & Schuster, Inc. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Book design by Mike Rosamilia The text for this book is set in Dolly. Manufactured in the United States of America 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clare, Cassandra. City of fallen angels / Cassandra Clare.—1st ed. p. cm.—(The mortal instruments; bk. 4) Summary: As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together. ISBN 978-1-4424-0354-3 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4424-0356-7 (eBook) [1. Supernatural—Fiction.2. Vampires—Fiction. 3. Demonology—Fiction. 4. Magic—Fiction. 5. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.C5265Cj 2011 [Fic]—dc22 2010041132

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Contents
Part One: Exterminating Angels Chapter 1: The Master Chapter 2: Falling Chapter 3: Sevenfold Chapter 4: The Art of Eight Limbs Chapter 5: Hell Calls Hell Chapter 6: Wake The DeadChapter 7: Praetor Lupus Chapter 8: Walk in Darkness Chapter 9: From Fire Unto Fire Part Two: For Every Life Chapter 10: Riverside Drive Chapter 11: Our Kind Chapter 12: Sanctuary Chapter 13: Girl Found Dead Chapter 14: What Dreams May Come Chapter 15: Beati Bellicosi Chapter 16: New York City Angels Chapter 17: And Cain Rose Up Chapter 18: Scars of Fire Chapter 19: Hell is Satisfied AcknowledgmentsPart One Exterminating Angels
There are sicknesses that walk in darkness; and there are exterminating angels, that fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see, but we feel their force, and sink under their sword. —Jeremy Taylor, “A Funeral Sermon”

1 THE MASTER
“Just coffee, please.”
The waitress raised her penciled eyebrows. “You don’twant anything to eat?” she asked. Her accent was thick, her attitude disappointed. Simon Lewis couldn’t blame her; she’d probably been hoping for a better tip than the one she was going to get on a single cup of coffee. But it wasn’t his fault vampires didn’t eat. Sometimes, in restaurants, he ordered food anyway, just to preserve the appearance of normalcy, but late Tuesday night, when Veselka wasalmost empty of other customers, it didn’t seem worth the bother. “Just the coffee.” With a shrug the waitress took his laminated menu and went to put his order in. Simon sat back against the hard plastic diner chair and looked around. Veselka, a diner on the corner of Ninth Street and Second Avenue, was one of his favorite places on the Lower East Side—an old neighborhood eatery papered withblack-and-white murals, where they let you sit all day as long as you ordered coffee at half-hour intervals. They also served what had once been his favorite vegetarian pierogi and borscht, but those days were behind him now. It was mid-October, and they’d just put their Halloween decorations up—a wobbly sign that said TRICK-OR-BORSCHT! and a fake cardboard cutout vampire nicknamed Count Blintzula....