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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The author gratefully acknowledges permission to include excerpted lines from the poem “September 1, 1939,” by W. H. Auden from The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927-1939. Copyright © 1940 by W. H. Auden. Used with permission of Random House, Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd.

OUT ON THE CUTTING EDGE. Copyright © 1989 by Lawrence Block All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © JULY 2002 ISBN: 9780061803994

First Avon Books paperback printing: October 1990
First William Morrow hardcover printing: October 1989

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