Copyright © 2017 by David Eric Tomlinson.

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Hardcover ISBN 10: 1-5072-0110-9

Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-1-5072-0110-7

Paperback ISBN 10: 1-5072-0109-5

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eISBN 13: 978-1-5072-0111-4

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tomlinson, David Eric, author.

The midnight man / David Eric Tomlinson.

Blue Ash, Ohio: Tyrus Books, 2017.

LCCN 2016031743 (print) | LCCN 2016039473 (ebook) | ISBN 9781507201107 (hc) | ISBN 1507201109 (hc) | ISBN 9781507201091 (pb) | ISBN 1507201095 (pb) | ISBN 9781507201114 (ebook) | ISBN 1507201117 (ebook)

LCSH: Public defenders--Fiction. | Choctaw indians--Fiction. | Basketball players--Crimes against--Fiction. | Murder--Investigation--Fiction. | Child witnesses--Fiction. | Capital punishment--Fiction. | Family secrets--Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Crime. | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. | FICTION / Sports. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

LCC PS3620.O565 M53 2017 (print) | LCC PS3620.O565 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031743

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, corporations, institutions, organizations, events, or locales in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. The resemblance of any character to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental.

“An American Prayer”

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