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THE CITY DEAN KOONTZ
Harper
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 First published in the USA in 2014 by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, A division of Random House, Inc., New York. Copyright © Dean Koontz 2014 Cover design layout © HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 Cover photographs © Mark Mahaney / Plainpicture (tower); Andy Roberts / Getty Images (feather); Shutterstock.com (moon) Dean Koontz asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Text design by Virginia Norey A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. 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, down-loaded, 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. Source ISBN: 9780007520282 Ebook Edition © July 2014 ISBN: 9780007520275 Version: 2015-12-31
This novel is dedicated,
with affection and gratitude,
to Jane Johnson,
who is one continent
and one sea away.
And to Florence Koontz
and Mildred Stefko,
who are one world away.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. —Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns Contents
