The Dreams of Ada (61 page)

PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY BOOKS

Copyright © 1987 by Robert Mayer

New afterword copyright © 2006 by Robert Mayer

All Rights Reserved

Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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A previous edition of this book was originally published in 1987 by Viking Penguin Inc.

Portions of this book first appeared, in different form, in
Vanity Fair
as “The Murder Dreams.”

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mayer, Robert, 1939–

The dreams of Ada / Robert Mayer.

p. cm.

1. Ward, Tommy—Trials, litigation, etc. 2. Fontenot, Karl—Trials, litigation, etc. 3. Trials (Murder)—Oklahoma—Ada I. Title.

KF224.W3M39 2006

345.766'02523—dc22

2006048445

eISBN: 978-0-7679-2711-6

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