Merciless is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.


Copyright © 2007 by Richard Montanari


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Montanari, Richard.

                           Merciless: a novel of suspense / Richard Montanari.

                                                                                          p. cm.

                           1. Police—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Fiction. 2. Serial murders—Fiction. 3. Philadelphia (Pa).—Fiction. I. Title.


PS3563.05384M47 2007

813'.54—dc22    2007013644


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