Shift: A Novel

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 © 2010 by Tim Kring

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kring, Tim, 1957–

Shift / Tim Kring and Dale Peck.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(Gate of Orpheus trilogy ; part 1)

I. Peck, Dale. II. Title. III. Series.

PS3611.R547S55 2010

813′.6—dc22 2010005470

eISBN: 978-0-307-45347-1

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