The Deep Zone

Copyright

The Deep Zone is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by James M. Tabor

All rights reserved.

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

BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tabor, James M.

The deep zone : a novel / James M. Tabor

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-53228-2

I. Title.

PS3620.A258D44 2012

813′.6—dc23

2011040477

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Cover art and design: Carlos Beltrán

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