When the Devil Whistles

Copyright © 2010 by Rick Acker

ISBN-13: 978-1-4267-0767-4

Published by Abingdon Press, P.O. Box 801, Nashville, TN 37202

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living or dead is purely coincidental.

Published in association with the literary agency of
Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80920, www.alivecommunications.com

Cover design by Anderson Design Group, Nashville, TN

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Acker, Rick, 1966-

  When the devil whistles / Rick Acker.

     p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4267-0767-4 (book - pbk./trade pbk., adhesive - perfect binding : alk. paper)

1. Whistle blowing—Fiction. 2. Corporations--Corrupt practices—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3601.C545W47 2010

813’.6—dc22

2010024817

Printed in the United States of America

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