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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Robert K. Tanenbaum
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First Gallery Books hardcover edition August 2015
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Author photograph by Blake Little
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tanenbaum, Robert.
Trap : a novel / Robert K. Tanenbaum. First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
pages ; cm
1. Karp, Butch (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Ciampi, Marlene (Fictitious character)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3570.A52T74 2015
813'.54—dc23
2015015089
ISBN 978-1-4767-9316-0
ISBN 978-1-4767-9317-7 (ebook)