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Copyright
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright 1954 by Jim Thompson
Copyright © renewed 1982 by Alberta H. Thompson
Excerpt from The Transgressors copyright © 1961 by Jim Thompson, copyright © renewed 1989 by Alberta Thompson
Author photograph by Sharon Thompson Reed
Cover design by Allison J. Warner; cover art: Getty Images
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