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COVER DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION BY JARROD TAYLOR

THE SUBPRIMES
. Copyright © 2015 by Karl Taro Greenfeld. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Greenfeld, Karl Taro.

The subprimes : a novel / Karl Taro Greenfeld. — First edition.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-06-213242-0 (hardcover)

EPub Edition May 2015 ISBN 9780062132444

I. Title.

PS3607.R4536S83 2015

813'.6—dc23
2014036100

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