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Автор Кэтрин Коултер

ALSO BY CATHERINE COULTER

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coulter, Catherine.

The Final Cut / Catherine Coulter ; and J. T. Ellison.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-101-61849-3

1. Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Department—Fiction.

2. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation—Fiction. 3. British—New York (State)—

New York—Fiction 4. Mystery fiction. I. Ellison, J. T. II. Title.

PS3553. O843F46 2013 2013024511

815'. 54—dc23

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Contents

Also By Catherine Coulter

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57