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Copyright © 2016 by Joshua Hammer

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition April 2016

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Interior design by Ruth Lee-Mui

Front endpaper: Map of Timbuktu. Copyright bogdanserban/iStock via Getty Images.

Back endpaper: Manuscript page. Photo by Xavier Rossi/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Jacket design by Na Kim

Jacket image from Shutterstock

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 978-1-4767-7740-5

ISBN 978-1-4767-7743-6 (ebook)