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Authors: Stephen Coonts

Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Genre Fiction, #War, #United States, #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Thrillers & Suspense, #Military, #Spies & Politics, #Espionage, #Thrillers

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

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

Acknowledgments

Also by Stephen Coonts

About the Author

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE ART OF WAR.
Copyright © 2016 by Stephen Coonts. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by Ervin Serrano

Cover photographs: aircraft carrier by Purestock/Superstock; ocean and sky by Istock; U.S. Marines photo/Alamy

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Coonts, Stephen, 1946– author.

Title: The art of war: a novel / Stephen Coonts.

Description: First edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015038676 | ISBN 9781250041999 (hardback) | ISBN 9781466839205 (e-book)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Espionage. | GSAFD: Spy stories. | Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3553.O5796 A88 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015038676

e-ISBN 978-1-4668-3920-5

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First Edition: February 2016

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