Authors: Richard Kurti
Monkey Wars
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.
Text copyright © 2013 by Richard Kurti
Cover and interior art copyright © 2014 by Will Staehle
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All rights reserved. This 2015 edition was published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. Originally published in paperback by Walker Books Ltd, London, England, in 2013. Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House LLC.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kurti, Richard.
Monkey wars / Richard Kurti.
pages cm
Originally published in the United Kingdom by Walker in 2013.
Summary: When rhesus monkeys are brutally massacred on the streets of Kolkata by a troop of power hungry langur monkeys, a young langur soldier's life is changed forever.
ISBN 978-0-385-74441-6 (hardcover) â ISBN 978-0-375-99165-3 (glb) â ISBN 978-0-385-38848-1 (ebook) [1. Rhesus monkeyâFiction. 2. LangursâFiction. 3. MonkeysâFiction. 4. WarâFiction.] I. Title.
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To K and H with love
In memory of A and J
The people to fear are not the strong but the weak. It's the weak who'll buckle when you're least expecting it, the weak who'll betray you without warning, the weak who will stop at nothing to save themselves.
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