The Guardian

John Saul

For Don Cleary and Stephanie Laidman A Fawcett Crest Book Published by Ballantine Books Copyright (D 1993 by John Saul

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-19002

ISBN 0-449-22304-3

First Hardcover Edition: September 1993

First Mass Market Edition: August 1994

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