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Published 2010 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books Shadow's Son. Copyright © 2010 by Jon Sprunk. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Inquiries should be addressed to Pyr 59 John Glenn Drive Amherst, New York 14228-2119 VOICE: 716-691-0133 FAX: 716-691-0137 WWW.PYRSF.COM

14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sprunk, Jon, 1970Shadow's son / by Jon Sprunk. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-61614-201-8 (pbk.) 1. Assassins-Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.P78S53 2010 813'.6-dc22 2010006203 Printed in the United States of America

This novel is dedicated to my wife, jenny, Without whom none of this would have been possible, And to our son, Logan, Who is the twinkle in our eyes.