Lethal Rage (28 page)

BRENT PILKEY is a Canadian police officer who has spent the majority of his 22-year career patrolling downtown streets and working on a mobile crisis team. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Copyright © Brent Pilkey, 2010

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Pilkey, Brent

Lethal Rage / Brent Pilkey.

ISBN 978-1-55022-925-7

I. Title.

PS8631.I479L48 2010 C813'.6 C2009-905970-3

Cover design: Tania Craan

Cover images: Blood spatter © Dave Wall / Arcangel Images

Man in Alley © Peeter Viisimaa / iStockphoto

Author photo: Photography by Andrew Hay

Typesetting: Mary Bowness

The publication of
Lethal Rage
has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, and by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. We also acknowledge the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, and by the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Development Program. The marketing of this book was made possible with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation.