Garack's Spine
Names: Garack's SpineGarack
First appears in Book 4: Heaven’s River, chapter 17 (17. First Day in Heaven’s River)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 17Garack's Spine, usually just called Garack, is a village on the Arcadia River near the expedition's entry point.
- Ch 19Garack locals gossip about groups of tight-fisted, surly strangers arriving, only some of them sabbatarians.
- Ch 56Bob and Bill worry the Administrator may deduce Garack's Spine is their destination and cordon it off.
- Ch 61Masked Quinlans with fléchette pistols ambush Bob and Hugh in Garack's Spine under cover of a knockout fog.
Connections
- inArcadia River
- containsOfficer Friendly
- intopopolis
- part oftopopolis
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 19Bob flees Garack
Accused of trying to rob a cart, Bob evades Officer Friendly and a mob of bystanders with martial arts and escapes downriver; the team leaves town.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Overhearing of the strangers
Bob overhears merchants discussing waves of untalkative strangers and the slang term 'scattered'; Will later finds the word used for something bad in Skippies' data.
- Book 4 · Ch 61Ambush at Garack's Spine
As Bob and Hugh cross Garack's Spine at night, a knockout fog is released and masked Quinlans with pistols close in; they flee over rooftops and through a rooming house.
- Book 4 · Ch 61Hugh sacrifices himself
Caught by a masked group, Hugh holds the attackers so Bob can break free with Bender; Bob takes a gun and runs for the hills.
- Book 4 · Ch 63Bob captured at the station
Reaching the transit station, Bob finds his secret hatch discovered; Crew ambush him, cut away the backpack holding Bender, and take him by train to a stronghold.