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An AOL Time Warner Company Printed in the United States of America First Printing: August 2002

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Foster, Alan Dean.

The mocking program / Alan Dean Foster. p. cm.

ISBN 0-446-52774-2

1. Police—California—Los Angeles—Fiction.  2. Los Angeles (Calif.)— Fiction.  3. Twenty-first century—Fiction.  4. Intuition—Fiction.  I. Title.

PS3556.O756 M63 2002

813'.54—dc21             2002022851