"Shadow Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Feehan Christine)

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.

SHADOW GAME

A Jove Book / published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY
Jove edition / September 2003

Copyright й 2003 by Christine Feehan
Excerpt from Wild Rain copyright й 2003 by Christine Feehan
Cover art by Cameron Davidson/Gettyone
Stepback art by Tamek Sikora/Gettyone
Cover design by Marc Cohen
Book design by Kristin del Rosario

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ISBN: 0-515-13596-8

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For my brother, Matthew King, many thanks for all the help with the research
necessary for this book. And for McKenzie King, for her dynamite smile and her
help in turning those book covers in the proper direction!

Special thanks to Cheryl Wilson. I have no idea what I'd do without you.
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CAPTAIN Ryland Miller leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes in
utter weariness. He could ignore the pain in his head, the knives shredding his
skull. He could ignore the cage he was in. He could even ignore the fact that
sooner or later, he was going to slip up and his enemies would kill him. But he