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First Hard Case Crime edition: August 2012

Published by

Titan Books

A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd

144 Southwark Street

London

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in collaboration with Winterfall LLC

Copyright © 2012 by Ariel S. Winter

Cover painting copyright © 2012 by Charles Pyle

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

Print edition ISBN 978-0-85768-581-0

E-book ISBN 978-0-85768-741-8

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