Black Moon

Copyright

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

Copyright © 2014 by Kenneth Calhoun

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

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HOGARTH is a trademark of the Random House Group Limited, and the H colophon is a trademark of Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Calhoun, Kenneth.

Black Moon : a novel / Kenneth Calhoun.—First Edition.

pages cm

1. Insomnia—Fiction. 2. Epidemics—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3603.A4388B58 2014

813′.6—dc23

2013025651

ISBN 978-0-8041-3714-0

eBook ISBN 978-0-8041-3715-7

Jacket design by Milan Bozic

Jacket photograph: © Jens Nieth/Corbis

Author photograph: Anya Belkina

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