TheDeceiver

THE DECEIVER

A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Bantam hardcover edition published October 1991

Bantam paperback edition I July 1992

Bantam reissue / August 1995

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following: Excerpt from THOSE WERE THE DAYS, Words and Music by Gene Raskin. TRO—© Copyright 1962 (renewed and 1968 Essex Music, Inc., New York, N.Y. Used by permission. Excerpt from THE CARNIVAL is over (Tom Springfield) © 1965 CHAPPELL MUSIC LTD. (PRS) All rights administered by CHAPPELL & CO. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-13114.

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ISBN 0-553-29742-2

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