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Getting Up with Fleas
The Digger Series
Smoked Out
Fool’s Flight
Dead Letter
Lucifer’s Weekend
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Part One: Nilo
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part Two: Tommy
Chapter 6
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Warren Murphy
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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Copyright © 2015 by Warren Murphy
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First Edition: November 2015