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THE BEST DEFENSE
by
Kate Wilhelm

PAWCETT CREST NEW YORK

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Kate Wilhelm

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Edition: September 1995 10 9 8 For Chris and Rosanne

PROLOGUE

paula kenner man is lost, confused. Thursdays are her best days, she
keeps thinking. She is off work on Thursday;

there is time to play with Lori, take her to the park, or shopping, or
the library. Thursdays are good days.

Packing, she was packing their things, hers and Lori's.

Yes, that was Thursday. Packing. And now she is here, someplace with
a curtain around her bed, needles in her arms. Thursday, she reminds
herself.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Jack demands, standing in the