Copyright ©2003 by Kirk Russell
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Russell, Kirk, 1954–
Shell games : a John Marquez crime novel / Kirk Russell.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8118-4186-3 (hc)
ISBN 978-0-8118-4111-5 (pb)
ISBN 978-1-4521-10561 (epub, mobi)

1. California. Dept. of Fish and Game—Fiction.
2. Government investigators—Fiction. 3. Abalone fisheries—Fiction.
4. California—Fiction. 5. Smuggling—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3618.U76S47 2003
813'.6—dc21
2003009590

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