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Copyright © Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1997

English translation copyright © Margaret Sayers Peden, 2006

All rights reserved

 

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the Putnam edition as follows:

 

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.

[Limpieza de sangre. English]

     Purity of blood / Arturo Pérez-Reverte;

     translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

          p. cm.

     ISBN: 1-4295-2325-5

     I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.

  PQ6666.E765L5613 2006 2005050984

  863'.64—dc22

 

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