Dark Justice
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2004
Copyright © Harry Patterson 2004
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Source ISBN: 9780008124939
Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780007369409
Version: 2015-07-20
To Neil Nyren, editor extraordinaire, with grateful thanks
‘One sword is worth ten thousand words’
The Koran
Contents
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