Without Mercy (30 page)

JEFFERSON BASS
is the bestselling writing team of Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, is the creator of the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility—the “Body Farm”—and the author of the memoir
Death's Acre
. He was honored as U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker, and the coauthor of
Death's Acre
. Bass lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Jefferson lives in Athens, Georgia.

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Fiction

The Breaking Point

Cut to the Bone

Jordan's Stormy Banks

The Inquisitor's Key

Madonna and Corpse

The Bone Yard

The Bone Thief

Bones of Betrayal

The Devil's Bones

Flesh and Bone

Carved in Bone

Nonfiction

Identity Crisis

Beyond the Body Farm

Death's Acre

Cover design by Richard L. Aquan

Cover photograph © Roy Bishop / Arcangel

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

WITHOUT MERCY
. Copyright © 2016 by Jefferson Bass, LLC. 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, 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.

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EPub Edition October 2016 ISBN 9780062363220

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