Payback is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Lorenzo Carcaterra

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

BALLANTINE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Hardback ISBN 9780399177590

Ebook ISBN 9780399177606

Book design by Barbara M. Bachman, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Carlos Beltrán

Cover photograph: Leo Patrizi/Getty Images

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