Copyright © 1977 by Jon A. Jackson

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Originally published by Random House, Inc., New York

Published simultaneously in Canada

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jackson, Jon A.

The diehard / Jon A. Jackson.

      p. cm.

ISBN 0-8021-3707-5

eISBN: 978-0-8021-9124-3

1. Mulheisen, Detective Sergeant (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—Michigan—Detroit—Fiction. 3. Detroit (Mich.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3560.A216 D54 200000-028792

813’.54—dc21

Cover design by David High

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