Hotspur

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 2002 by American Artists, Inc.

Title page illustrations copyright © 2002 by Lee Gildea Jr. Excerpt from Full Cry copyright © 2003 by American Artists, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Hotspur is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-41552-3

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