The Smoke Room (33 page)
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The Smoke Room
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Earl Emerson
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Emerson, Earl W.
The smoke room: a novel of suspense / Earl Emerson.
p. cm.
1. Fire fighters—Fiction. 2. Theft—Fiction. 3. Bonds—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3555.M39S66 2005
813′.54—dc22 2005041143
eISBN: 978-0-345-48455-0
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