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FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bell, Ted.

Warlord: an Alex Hawke novel / Ted Bell.--1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-185929-8 (hardcover)

1. Hawke, Alex (Fictitious character)--Fiction. 2. Intelligence officers--Fiction. 3. Royal houses--Great Britain--Fiction. 4. Attempted assassination--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3602.E6455W37 2010

813'.6--dc22

2010011926

EPub Edition (c) August 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201683-6

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