A Perfect Crime (30 page)

By Peter Abrahams:

THE FURY OF RACHEL MONETTE

TONGUES OF FIRE

RED MESSAGE

HARD RAIN

PRESSURE DROP

REVOLUTION #9

THE FAN

LIGHTS OUT

A PERFECT CRIME*

*Published by Ballantine Books

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 1998 by Pas de Deux Corporation

Excerpt from
Crying Wolf
copyright © 2000 by Pas de Deux Corporation.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Creeping Death Music for permission to reprint an excerpt from the lyrics of “Master of Puppets” written by Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Cliff Burton. Lyrics reprinted by permission of Creeping Death Music.

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First Hardcover Edition: October 1998

First Mass Market Edition: September 1999

eISBN: 978-0-345-43655-9

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