A Tan and Sandy Silence is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2013 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 1971 by John D. MacDonald Publishing, Inc.
Copyright renewed 2000 by Maynard MacDonald
Introduction copyright © 2013 by Lee Child
Excerpt from The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald copyright © 1973 by
John D. MacDonald Publishing, Inc. and copyright renewed 2001 by
Maynard MacDonald
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Originally published in mass market in the United States by Fawcett, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1972.
The lines from “A Year’s Changes” by Jim Harrison, which appeared in the collection titled Locations, published by W. W. Norton & Company, are reprinted courtesy of the author. Copyright 1968 by Jim Harrison.
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