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  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2013 by Michael Palmer

  Used by permission of the author’s estate and the Jane Rotrosen Agency

  Cover design by Keith Hayes

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  First ebook edition: June 2016

  Originally published in The Strand Magazine, 2013

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  ISBN 978-0-316-36114-9

  E3-20160517-JV-PC