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VAL McDERMID
The Last Temptation
Harper
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2002
Copyright © Val McDermid 2002
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Extract from Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (published by Faber and Faber Ltd) reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
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Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007327621
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For Cameron Joseph McDermid Baillie:
not much of a gift by comparison,
but the best I can do.
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot
Only when it is responsible for providing psychological diagnoses for state purposes does psychology really become important.
Max Simoneit, scientific director of
Wehrmacht Psychology, 1938
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