Forbidden City (28 page)

Copyright © 1990 by William Bell
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FORBIDDEN CITY
Seal Books, published by arrangement with Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited

PUBLISHING HISTORY
Doubleday Canada edition published 1990
Laurel-Leaf edition April 1996
Seal Books edition February 1999

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