Defectors

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Joseph Kanon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kanon, Joseph, author.

Title: Defectors : a novel / by Joseph Kanon.

Description: First edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016056307 (print) | LCCN 2017002017 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501121395 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501121418 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Defectors—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Espionage. | FICTION / General. | GSAFD: Spy stories. | Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3561.A476 D44 2017 (print) | LCC PS3561.A476 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056307

ISBN 978-1-5011-2139-5

ISBN 978-1-5011-2141-8 (ebook)