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Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

Wildside Press

www.WildsidePress.com

1990, Ace Books, New York

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Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

BUREAU 13: JUDGMENT NIGHT

A publication of

Wildside Press

P. O. Box 301

Holicong, PA 18928-0301

www.wildsidepress.com

Printing history: 1990, Ace Books, New York.

1995 Armada Press, Moscow

2001 Wildside Press, New Jersey

Bureau 13 is based upon the RPG “Stalking the Night

www.TriTacGames.com

Join the “Bureau 13” fan club!

www.Bureau-13.com

Cover illustration by Larry Dixon.

This edition has been revised and expanded from the first

edition.

No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means,

electronic or otherwise, without first obtaining the written

consent of the author. For more information, contact Wildside

Press or email info@wildsidepress.com.

Wildside Press edition: January 2001.

Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

As always, for Melissa.

Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

INTRODUCTION

While demons committed unspeakable acts of horror, I sat

laughing amid a thousand people screaming in raw terror.

Sound like something from a Bureau 13 novel? Almost.

That was me back in 1973, watching The Exorcist in a movie

theater. Oh, I started out gasping and scared, but then my

companion started giggling, then guffawing, and finally

roaring in laughter. Naturally, I soon followed suit.

Why was he doing this? Easy. My buddy, Wolf (real name

Richard Anderson. Sound familiar? Thought so. Read on.) was

working as a clerk at the same bookstore I was, and as the

resident weirdoes we naturally struck up a friendship.

However, while I wanted to be an author, Wolf fashioned

himself a paranormal investigator, and often went away for

long weekends to research supposedly supernatural events.

Since the occurrences were sometimes purely human in

origin, along with a cross, an ankh, and a Mogen David, he

also carried a Colt .45 automatic pistol. Sure came in handy

when he discovered a Hells Angels motorcycle gang in the old

Bell Telephone pavilion at the abandoned 1965 World's Fair in

New York. Nothing ghostly, or demonic was happening, just

some whacked-out biker perverts killing homeless people and

stealing their heads.

Anyway, while we were watching The Exorcist he keep

telling me how the producers got this wrong, or that

incorrect, it doesn't work that way, and why did they make

that up when the real version was so much scarier?

Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

As the population of America howled in fear, Wolf laughed,

and soon I stopped watching the movie and started watching

him, my mind already spinning along the lines of a novel

about a supernatural investigation team. Yeah, I'd call it “The

Wolf Pack.” Good title.

Once I got back home, I started amassing notes and soon

roughed out a plot and the main characters. The hero would

be Richard “Wolf” Anderson, a self-made wizard grimly

determined to battle with the forces of evil and thus learn

more magic.

His muscle would be, hmm, Mindy Jennings, a petite, but

deadly, martial artist who was bored with contests and

tournaments. She wanted to actually test her skills, and

fighting demons sounded just fine to her. The team would

need financial aid for equipment, silver bullets and such, so

their backer for this endeavor was, George d'Renault, a bored

millionaire who flipped a coin and decided to back a

paranormal research team or buy the Dallas Cowboys. George

became their gunbunny, a rank amateur now carrying a M60

machine gun.

But months slipped by and I just could not seem to get the

background for the characters to gel. Something was missing,

something basic, yet very important. But what could it be?

To rest my beleaguered brain, I went over a friend's house

for some war gaming and was introduced to the RPG (role-

playing game for those who don't know) Bureau 13 from

TriTac Games. (although at the time it was called “Stalking

the Night Fantastic.") As I read the box, all of the little pieces

fell into place. Hey, the Wolf Pack could be team of FBI

Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

agents! Nobody has ever done that before! (remember, this

was almost a decade before The X-Files) And this covert

branch of the FBI fought supernatural criminals, but not all

supernaturals. Case in point, it is not illegal to be a vampire.

So if a vampire owned a herd of cows and only drank their

blood, then no laws had been broken and the Bureau will

have to defend the vampire against a mob of angry villagers.

Hot damn, now you're talking! This is exactly what the

Wolf Pack was supposed to be. Now I knew that with enough

effort I could get the novel there, but I liked the tone of this.

It resonated in my head and I made a decision.

Swiftly, I started creating an FBI investigation team: the

dashingly handsome Ed Alvarez, a private detective from

Chicago. Ed looks a lot like me, and talks like me, and eats at

my favorite restaurants, but then this was only my second

novel.

Then came, Jessica Taylor, the sexy telepath that Ed was

secretly in love with. She knew (of course), but he didn't

know that she knew. Now I could have fun with that. Ah,

love!

Okay, Mindy was perfect so she would stay as Mindy, but

I'd give her a special weapon. Nice. Richard stayed the same,

except I combed his wild mane of hair and removed his

nickname since it was too distracting. As the team was FBI,

they had ample monetary support from the government and

thus no need of a financial backer, so George gained fifty

pounds and became a war veteran from Viet Nam, an

overweight warrior, still hard as steel in spite of the passing

years. Pausing for a moment, I gazed thoughtfully at my

Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

alligator shoes, and out of the blue came Amigo, their pet

lizard with a very big secret. As a military historian, it was

obvious that having only one wizard was poor tactics,

insufficient firepower, so I added Raul Horta (as strange a

character as I have ever penned), and then rounded them off

with a big, beefy, redheaded Irish Catholic priest, Father

Michael Xavier Donaher. After all, somebody had to do the

exorcisms. (Remember the movie that started this?)

While my friends gamed, I furiously wrote in the corner,

cackling in delight, knowing I had a winner here. That is, if I

could get the book rights.

A month later I finally tracked down Richard Tucholka, the

creator of Bureau 13, introduced myself to him in the middle

of the dealer's room at a SF convention and passed over the

first chapter of a novel.

Knowing of me from the hit SF/humor novel Illegal Aliens,

Richard decided to read a page or two of the sample chapter

right there. When he lowered the last page with tears of

laughter in his eyes, he extended his hand and said let's a

make a deal. Shazam, I had the complete rights to writing

Bureau 13 novels.

Over time, I gave him back the short story rights as other

great writers wanted in on the fun; Lawrence Watt-Evans,

Mercedes Lackeys, and such. But the novels were mine alone

and I ran with the ball.

After the convention I got hard at work and two months

later, I sent the first book, originally titled simply Bureau 13

(now called Bureau 13 #1: Judgement Night) to Ace Books in

New York. They called back in record time and offered a three

Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1

by Nick Pollotta

book contract. Three? Sure! Then they delivered Dorian

Vallejo, the son of the genius Boris Vallejo, as my cover

artist. Superb stuff. If the paintings are ever on display at a

SF convention, go see the original oils. The printed covers can

not do them justice.

The novels hit the bookstores, and suddenly fan clubs

started appearing across the country, Baltimore, Pittsburgh,

New Orleans, Seattle, then there was a Bureau 13

convention! My books were a hit with the cast of hard-boiled,

wise cracking heroes who faced down any danger and fought

hard to deliver justice, often at the end of a gun or magic

wand. Suddenly, I was the Mickey Spillane of the

supernatural.

Then a Moscow publisher contacted me about translating

the trilogy into Russian. Smiling broadly, I signed, and the

books went ballistic in the Ukraine. Selling over half a million

copies, just in time for Soviet Communism to fall apart and

democracy to return to Russia. I take some small measure of

pride in thinking that maybe my books helped bring down the

Red Menace. Okay, they didn't, but it makes a hell of a story

for me to tell over beer and pizza.

Now this cult-classic trilogy has been rewritten, the real-

world technology updated, and the books expanded, with a

brand new fourth novel, Damned Nation written just for this

re-release for Wildside Press in New Jersey, and Drofa Press

in Moscow. Plus, additional deals are in progress with

Germany, Australia, France, Italy, and Great Britain.

An amusing anecdote for my English speaking readers, the

Russian translators changed a few things, mostly that Mindy

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became a six foot tall Norwegian blonde, and a certain group

of villains became ex-KGB agents now using necromancy to

try and topple the god-fearing democracy of Russia and

return the iron-heel of communism. Hmm, maybe I did help a

little. Who knows?

Now, since both my American and Russian publishers have

asked me to say something about myself, rather than just

chatting about the books here goes. Gang, if you read my

books, then you know me. My heart, blood, and guts are in

every one. Let me explain. A long time ago I heard a recorded

interview with Frank Sinatra on the radio from 1955, and the

disc jockey was trying to bust Frank's chops with snide

remarks, but Sinatra was cool and answered every question

with panache and humor. Finally, the DJ asked if Sinatra had

a philosophy that he followed and Frank said yes. He did

everything, every song, every performance, every movie, as

if he was going to drop dead instantly after it was finished,

and it would be by this one last act that he would be

remembered forever—or forgotten completely. I was floored

by that and turned off the rest of the interview to memorize

his words. Now I have the phrase framed on the wall of my

studio.

“By this one book be remembered, or forgotten, forever.”

That's it, folks, win, lose or draw, every book is all that I got.

I hold nothing back.

For those who want more, I'm half Sicilian and half

Scottish, which means I occasional put on a dress and kill

people with a pepperoni haggis. I used to be a stand-up

comic in Manhattan, a martial arts instructor, an armed high

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