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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haldeman, Joe W.

Work done for hire / Joe Haldeman. — First Edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-425-25688-6 (hardback)

1. Authorship—Fiction. 2. Snipers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.A353W67 2014

813'.54—dc23

2013034539

FIRST EDITION: January 2014

Cover photographs: rifle © Saulius L / Shutterstock; target © PILart/Shutterstock.

Cover design by Judith Lagerman.

Interior text design by Laura K. Corless.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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