PERSUADER

A Delacorte Book / May 2003


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Bantam Dell

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.


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Copyright © 2003 by Lee Child


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Child, Lee.

Persuader : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.

p. cm.

e-ISBN 0-440-33386-5

1. Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.H4838 P4 2003

813′.54—dc21            2002034965


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