<link href="css/9780316407182.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:e36ba47d-1950-4dc7-bf13-4352953208db" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <div class="galley-rw"> <section class="frontmatter-rw Copyright-rw" epub:type="frontmatter copyright-page" id="Copyright2"> <div class="block-rw copyright-rw" id="copyright2"> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2656"><span>The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2657"><span>Copyright © 2015 by James Patterson<br/> Excerpt from <i>The Murder House</i> copyright © 2015 by James Patterson<br/> Cover design by Kapo Ng<br/> Cover photographs: © caracterdesign / Getty Images (wall); Henrik Sorensen / Getty Images (red smoke)<br/> Author photograph by David Burnett<br/> Cover copyright © 2015 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2658"><span>All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at <a href="mailto:permissions@hbgusa.com"><span class="Internetlink">permissions@hbgusa.com</span></a>. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2659"><span>Little, Brown and Company<br/> Hachette Book Group<br/> 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104<br/><a href="http://www.littlebrown.com"><span class="Internetlink">littlebrown.com</span></a><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/littlebrown">twitter.com/littlebrown</a><br/><a href="http://facebook.com/littlebrownandcompany">facebook.com/littlebrownandcompany</a></span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2660"><span>First ebook edition: August 2015</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2661"><span>Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2662"><span>The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2663"><span>The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2664"><span>MICHAEL BENNETT is a trademark of JBP Business, LLC.</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2665"><span>ISBN 978-0-316-40718-2</span></p> <p class="crt-rw" id="p2666"><span>E3</span></p> </div> </section> </div> </body> </html>