The Damned (34 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Andrew Pyper Enterprises, Inc.

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition February 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pyper, Andrew.

The damned : a novel / Andrew Pyper. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages cm

1. Future life—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Twins—Fiction. 4. Suspense fiction. 5. Ghost stories. I. Title.

PR9199.3.P96D36 2015

813'.54—dc23

  2014016217

ISBN 978-1-4767-5511-3

ISBN 978-1-4767-5513-7 (ebook)