Captain America: Dark Designs

Stefan Petrucha

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789093490
• Print ISBN:
  9781789093483

The tenth title in Titan Books' Marvel fiction reissue program, featuring the Captain America story, Captain America: Dark Designs. SUPER HEROES SURVIVE. IT'S WHAT THEY DO. BUT SO DO THE VILLAINS THAT HAUNT THEM. Steve Rogers knows the art of survival better than most. Decades under ice will do that to a man. But the Avengers chipped more than rock-hard morality and super strength out from under that permafrost. When Cap takes out a terrorist cell threatening to poison the world, he'll discover a threat far more deadly. An incurable virus has hidden in his body for years — and now it's come to the surface. To save the world, he'll have to return to his own personal hell: deep freeze. And he'll have to take an old friend with him. Having survived his own death by inhabiting a clone of Steve Rogers, the Red Skull has inherited the virus — and he's a little less willing to play martyr. As the deadly disease shifts and evolves, new patterns emerge. Can Captain America contain the Red Skull before the virus runs rampant?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Novels of the Marvel Universe by Titan Books
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• 1 It’s not About the Individual. It’s About the Design, the Pattern.
• 2 Oh, Dying Would Matter to them, of Course. No One Wants to Die.
• 3 But Kill Them All and What Does It Matter?
• 4 Death Only Matters to Those Left Behind.
• 5 If They’re All Gone, What’s Left to Care? The Sky? The Planet? The Stars? No.
• 6 History Doesn’t Exist Without Someone Reading It.
• 7 History is Also Written by the Winner.
• 8 If They’re Gone, No One Will Fret their Questions or Ponder their Existence. No One Except Me.
• 9 I’ll Be the Only One Deciding What they Are Worth. So Why Shouldn’t I Decide if they Live?
• 10 If Something’s About to Destroy You, The Obvious Choice is to Destroy it First.
• 11 But is It so Easy to Destroy if It’s the Most Astonishing Thing You’ve Ever Seen?
• 12 How Do You Decide if It’s Worth the Risk?
• 13 But Why Would I Ever Value Anything More than Myself?
• 14 In The End, What’s Worth More—Me, Or The Things That Make Me Feel Alive?
• 15 If I Try to be Objective, It’s Like Trying to Pick One Snowflake Over Another.
• 16 If I Were as Callous as the Stars, I’d Flip A Coin. But that Would Be the Same as not Deciding at All.
• 17 It Can’t Just Be Luck that Decides For me, It Has to be The Pattern. The Design.
• 18 If I had a Million Years, I Could Think Through to Certainty, But I Don’t. I Have to Decide—And Soon.
• 19 True Beauty that Can Make the Very Idea of Luck Seem Meaningless, A Placeholder for a Lack of Understanding.
• 20 Wanting to Preserve that Beauty Can’t Be Pointless.
• 21 Not to Appreciate Beauty, Well, that Would be the Very Definition of Pointlessness.
• 22 But Believing in Beauty Doesn’t Mean Risking My Life for it, Does It?
• 23 But if I Sacrifice Myself, I do it in Secret. Who Would Know? Who Would Care?
• 24 What Would Be Left to Fret My Questions, to Judge Me Good or Ill?
• 25 My History Won’t Exist Without Someone to Write It.
• 26 I’d Still Remember them, Though.
• 27 If I Survive, I May See Their Like Again.
• 28 Maybe, In Time, I’ll See Something Better, Even More Worth the Risk.
• 29 If I’m Gone, I Won’t See Anything at All.
• 30 And Nothing Wants to Die.
• Epilogue
• About the Author