The Information Officer

The Information Officer 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 © 2009 by Mark Mills

Maps copyright © 2010 by Daniel R. Lynch

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House,

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a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers,

London, in 2009.

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Mills, Mark

The information officer: a novel / Mark Mills.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-58836-910-9

1. World War, 1939–1945—Malta—Fiction. 2. British—Malta—

Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Malta—Fiction.

I. Title.

PS3613.I569I64 2009 813′.6—dc22 2009020047

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