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      First published in Great Britain by GraftonBooks 1988

      Copyright © Katharine Kerr 1987

      Revised edition © Katharine Kerr 1994

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      Source ISBN: 9780007333813

      Ebook Edition © APRIL 2015 ISBN: 9780007391936

      Version: 2019-07-16

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DEDICATION

       For my father, Sergeant John Carl Brahtin, 1918–44, who died fighting to free Europe from a worse evil than anything a novelist can invent.

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