JOHN BURLEY
No Mercy
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First Published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copyright © John Burley 2014
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007559480
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007559497
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There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
—Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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