Trial by Ice and Fire (33 page)

“What is it, Burns?”

“I'm going to marry your goddaughter.”

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LSO BY
C
LINTON
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C
K
INZIE

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DGE OF
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USTICE

P
OINT OF
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TRIAL BY ICE AND FIRE

A Delacorte Book / July 2003

Published by Bantam Dell

A division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2003 by Clinton McKinzie

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McKinzie, Clinton.

Trial by ice and fire / Clinton McKinzie.

p. cm.

1. Government investigators—Fiction. 2. Stalking victims—Fiction.

3. Mountaineering—Fiction. 4. Women lawyers—Fiction. 5.

Wyoming—Fiction.

I. Title.

PS3613.C568 T7 2002

813'.6—dc21

2002041285

Published simultaneously in Canada

eISBN: 978-0-440-33431-6

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