Persian Fire

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2007

Copyright © 2005 by Tom Holland

Persian Fire was originally published in Great Britain in 2005 by Little, Brown, a division of Time Warner Books UK. The Doubleday edition is published by arrangement with Little, Brown.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.

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