The Last Town on Earth (42 page)

About the Author

T
HOMAS
M
ULLEN
was born and raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Oberlin College. He has lived in Boston; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and now lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife. This is his first novel.

This is a work of fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2006 by Thomas Mullen

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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Mullen, Thomas.

The last town on earth: a novel / Thomas Mullen.

p. cm.

1. Influenza—Washington (State)—Fiction. 2. Morality—Fiction. 3. Community life—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3613.U447L37 2006

813'.6—dc22 2005046687

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