The Consignment (34 page)

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ALSO BY GRANT SUTHERLAND

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

THE CONSIGNMENT

A Bantam Book / March 2003

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Bantam Dell

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New York, New York

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.

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Copyright © 2003 by Grant Sutherland

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sutherland, Grant.

The consignment / Grant Sutherland.

p. cm.

1. Persian Gulf War, 1991—Veterans—Fiction. 2. Illegal arms transfers—Fiction. 3. Weapons industry—Fiction. 4. Pentagon (Va.)—Fiction. 5. Africa—Fiction.
I. Title.

PR9619.4.s88 C66 2003

813´.54—dc21 2002027939

eISBN: 978-0-553-89723-4

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