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Copyright © 1989 by James Lee Burke
Originally published in 1989 by Hyperion Books
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Cover photograph Casa Grande, Big Band National Park, Texas, USA © Radius / SuperStock
Author photograph by Frank Veronsky
ISBN 978-1-4767-0850-8
ISBN 978-1-4516-2079-5 (ebook)