Spiral

Copyright

Spiral 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 © 2011 by Paul McEuen

All rights reserved.

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

DIAL PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

McEuen, Paul.

Spiral / by Paul McEuen.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-679-60435-8

1. Biotechnology—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3613.C428S65 2010

813′.6—dc22

2010009768

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Jacket design and illustration: Will Staehle

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