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First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Orion, an imprint of the
Orion Publishing Group Ltd,

Copyright 2002 David Cray

The moral right of David Cray to be identified as the author of this
work has been asserted in accordance with the

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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.

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

ISBN 0 75285 598 0 (hardback); {

Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St. Ives plc

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to
actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

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To the Reader:

Although my novel, Little Girl Blue, does not concern itself with
terrorism, several pivotal chapters are set in lower Manhattan, blocks
from where the towers of the World Trade Center once stood. Given the
length of time between the writing (Little Girl Blue was completed in
October 2000) and the publication of books, I'm sure my situation is
far from unique. Nevertheless, I feel obliged to make a statement.

I love the city of my birth, the city in which I continue to live,
every greedy, grimy, glorious inch of it; my sense of violation could
not be more profound. Nor can I overstate the gratitude and respect I
feel for the cops and the firefighters and the paramedics who gave