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THE AMERICAN BOY & THE SCENT OF DEATH
Andrew Taylor
Harper
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Copyright © Andrew Taylor 2015
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Andrew Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical fact, are the work of the author’s imagination.
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Copyright
Sneak peek at The Silent Boy
About the Author
By Andrew Taylor
About the Publisher
THE AMERICAN BOY
Andrew Taylor
Harper
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
77–85 Fulham Palace Road
Hammersmith
London W6 8JB
First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 2003
Copyright © Andrew Taylor 2003
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Cover photographs © Sally Mundy / Arcangel Images (iron gate); Getty Images (townhouse); Shutterstock.com (textured background); Mark Owen / Trevillion Images (boy)
Designed by: www.emma-rogers.com
Andrew Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Ebook Edition © December 2012 ISBN: 9780007380985
Version: 2015-01-05
For Sarah and William. And, as always, for Caroline.
I would not, if I could, here or to-day, embody
a record of my later years of unspeakable
misery, and unpardonable crime.
From “William Wilson” by Edgar Allan Poe
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