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 © 2003 by Lindsey Davis
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Originally published in hardcover by Mysterious Press

First eBook Edition: April 2004

ISBN: 978-0-446-50741-7