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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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Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2015 ISBN: 9780008108618

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Sneak peek at The Silent Boy

About the Author

By Andrew Taylor

About the Publisher

THE AMERICAN BOY

Andrew Taylor

Copyright

Harper

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First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 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)

Andrew Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Ebook Edition © December 2012 ISBN: 9780007380985

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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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