THE RHYTHM SECTION
Mark Burnell
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This edition published 2020
First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1999
Copyright © Mark Burnell 1999
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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: 9780008301804
Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2020 ISBN: 9780007397556
Version: 2019-12-10
To my parents, with love and thanks for your ceaseless support.
Character is destiny.
George Eliot/Mill On The Floss
Let’s make us medicine of our great revenge,
to cure this deadly grief.
William Shakespeare/Macbeth
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