Riptide

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A Time Warner Company This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the authors' imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1998 by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Preston, Douglas J.

Riptide / Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.p. cm.

ISBN 0-446-52336-4 I. Child, Lincoln. IL Title. PS3566.R3982R57 1998 813'.52—dc21

Book design by Giorgetta Bell McRee 97-23907 CIP