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First published in the UK by Constable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2011

First US edition published by SohoConstable, an imprint of Soho Press, 2011

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Copyright © Peter Helton, 2011

The right of Peter Helton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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

A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication data is available from the British Library

UK ISBN: 978-1-78033-143-0

US ISBN: 978-1-61695-082-8

eISBN: 978-1-78033-157-7

US Library of Congress number: 2011030236

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