The Deep

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Craig Davidson

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition January 2015

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Interior design by Davina Mock-Maniscalco

Cover design by Black Kat Design

Cover photographs: sky © plainpicture/Naturbild; ocean © plainpicture/goZooma

Author photograph by Kevin Kelly

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cutter, Nick.

The deep / Nick Cutter.

pages cm

I. Title.

PS3603.U883D44 2015

813’.6—dc23

2014017213

ISBN 978-1-4767-1773-9

ISBN 978-1-4767-1776-0 (ebook)