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

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Copyright © 2002 by Lindsey Davis

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First eBook Edition: September 2003

ISBN: 978-0-446-55660-6