The Beast

Copyright

First published in Sweden by Piratforlaget in 2004

First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Little, Brown

This paperback edition published in 2006 by Abacus

Copyright © Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström 2004

Translation copyright © Anna Paterson

The moral right of the authors has been asserted.

All characters in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN-13: 978-0-349-11849-9

ISBN-10: 0-349-11849-3

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