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First published as an Ebook in Great Britain by Headline Publishing Group in 2017
All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Cover imagery: landscape © Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images; coin © Yaroslaff/Shutterstock; figure © syrotkin/Shutterstock; sky © bartsadowski/Adobe Stock; cuneiform © Lilyana Vynogradova/Shutterstock; light glow © Gun/Shutterstock; textures © Lightix/ Shutterstock & NataLT/ Shutterstock;
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eISBN: 978 1 4722 4241 9
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