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THE KEY TO REBECCA

BY

KEN FOLLETT


A SIGNET BOOK
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
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First Signet Printing, September, 1981

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PUBLISHERS NOTE

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents
are either the product of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 To RoBiN MCGIBBON
 "Our spy in Cairo is the greatest hero of them all."
-ERWIN ROMMEL, September 1942

(Quoted by Anthony Cave Brown in Bodyguard of Lim)
 PART ONE

TOBRUK
 1

The last camel collapsed at noon.
It was the five-year-old white bull he had bought in Gialo, the youngest
and strongest of the three beasts, and the least ill-tempered: he liked
the animal as much as a man could like a camel, which is to say that he