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.
Copyright © 2010 by Jodi Compton
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint
of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.,
New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Compton, Jodi.
Hailey’s war / Jodi Compton.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Bicycle messengers—Fiction. 2. Pregnant
teenagers—Fiction. 3. Gangs—Fiction.
4. Gangsters—Fiction. 5. California—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.O486H35 2010
813′.6—dc22 2009033214
eISBN: 978-0-307-58807-4
v3.0