Copyright

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Charles Cumming 2018

      Cover jacket design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

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      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.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008200312

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2018 ISBN: 9780008200336

      Version: 2020-01-23

       Dedication

       For Luke Janklow and Will Francis

       Epigraph

      ‘There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.’

      Graham Greene, The Comedians