Copyright © 2013 by Alex Kovacs

First edition, 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kovacs, Alex, 1982- The currency of paper / Alex Kovacs. -- First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-56478-857-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-564-78981-5 (e-book)

1. Swindlers and swindling--Fiction. 2. Capitalism--Fiction. 3. Satire. 4. London (England)--Fiction. I. Title.

PR6111.O68C87 2013

823'.92--dc23

2013007218

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Cover: design and composition by Mikhail Iliatov

The photograph on page 80 is reproduced with the permission of Edwin Smith/RIBA Library Photographs Collection.

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