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by F. Paul Wilson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)

The fifth harmonic : a novel / F. Paul Wilson.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-57174-386-3 (alk. paper)

1. Throat--Cancer--Patients--Fiction. 2. Physicians--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3573.I45695F54 2003

813'.54--dc22

2003014796

ISBN 1-57174-386-3

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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