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CONTENTS
COVER
TITLE PAGE
WELCOME
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPH
I: TUESDAY: BLUNT FORCE CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
II: WEDNESDAY: THE INTERN CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
III: THURSDAY: EXPLOIT CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
IV: FRIDAY: THE PEOPLE'S GUARDIAN CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
V: SATURDAY: CHECK... CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 45
CHAPTER 46
VI: SUNDAY: ... AND MATE CHAPTER 47
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 50
CHAPTER 51
CHAPTER 52
CHAPTER 53
CHAPTER 54
CHAPTER 55
CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 57
CHAPTER 58
CHAPTER 59
CHAPTER 60
VII: MONDAY: PLAN A CHAPTER 61
CHAPTER 62
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY JEFFERY DEAVER
NEWSLETTERS
COPYRIGHT
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Deaver, Jeffery, author.
Title: The steel kiss / Jeffery Deaver.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. | Series: A Lincoln Rhyme novel Identifiers: LCCN 2015039435| ISBN 9781455536344 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781478906629 (audio download) | ISBN 9781478906612 (audio cd) Subjects: LCSH: Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character)--Fiction. | Police--New York (State)--New York--Fiction. | Forensic scientists--Fiction. | Quadriplegics--Fiction. | Serial murder investigation--Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Thrillers. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction | Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3554.E1755 S74 2016 | DDC 813/.54--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015039435
ISBNs: 978-1-45553634-4 (hardcover), 978-1-4555-4052-5 (large print), 978-1-4555-3636-8 (ebook) E3