Published in hardback in Great Britain in 2017 by Corvus,
an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
Copyright © Phil Rickman, 2017
The moral right of Phil Rickman to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.
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Hardback ISBN: 978 1 78239 697 0
E-book ISBN: 978 1 78239 699 4
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