Vengeance: Mystery Writers of America Presents

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“The Fourteenth Juror,” © 2012 by Alpha Blonde, LLC

“The Mother,” © 2012 by Alafair Burke

“The Hollywood I Remember,” © 2012 by Lee Child

“A Fine Mist of Blood,” © 2012 by Michael Connelly

“Leverage,” © 2012 by Mike Cooper

“The Final Ballot,” © 2012 by Brendan DuBois

“Blind Justice,” © 2012 by Jim Fusilli

“It Ain’t Right,” © 2012 by Michelle Gagnon

“Even a Blind Man,” © 2012 by Darrell James

“The General,” © 2012 by Janice Law

“Silent Justice” © 2012 by C. E. Lawrence

“The Consumers,” © 2012 by Dennis Lehane

“Hot Sugar Blues,” © 2012 by Steve Liskow

“Moonshiner’s Lament,” © 2012 by Rick McMahan

“Blood and Sunshine,” © 2012 by Adam Meyer

“The Hotline,” © 2012 by Dreda Say Mitchell

“Africa Always Needs Guns,” © 2012 by Michael Niemann

“Lost and Found,” © 2012 by Zoë Sharp

“The Unremarkable Heart,” © 2010 by Karin Slaughter

First published in Holland as an e-book original in 2010 as “Ongezien.”

Also published in the United Kingdom as an e-book in 2011.

Reprinted by permission of the author.

“In Persona Christi,” © 2012 by Orest Stelmach

“River Secret,” © 2012 by Anne Swardson

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First published in the United States by Mulholland Books, an imprint of

Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Published in hardback in Great Britain in 2012 by Corvus, an imprint of

Atlantic Books Ltd.

Compilation Copyright © Mystery Writers of America, Inc., 2012

Introduction Copyright © Lee Child, 2012

Copyright notices for individual stories appear on page 387

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, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.

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

Hardback ISBN: 978 0 85789 901 9

Trade paperback ISBN: 978 0 85789 902 6

E-book ISBN: 978 0 85789 903 3

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