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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Howard A.

The desert of souls / Howard Andrew Jones. — 1st ed.

        p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-312-64674-5

 1.  Iran—History—640-1500—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3610.O62535D47 2011

813'.6—dc22

2010039301

First Edition: February 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-9481-1

First Thomas Dunne Books eBook Edition: February 2011