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  Slovak knew instantly whom she meant. “Kessler.”

  She peered at him fiercely, man’s dream of vengeance glowing hotly in her eyes. “Do you think it’s too late to find him?”

  Slovak saw the black carriage disappear into the swirling fog, Kessler’s freckled arm waving. He felt a wholly unexpected hope rise in him. Small and delicate. Carried on the faintest wings.

  “No,” he said. “Never.”

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  THOMAS H. COOK is the author of fourteen novels, including The Chatham School Affair, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Sacrificial Ground and Blood Innocents, both Edgar Award nominees; and two early works about true crimes, Early Graves and Blood Echoes, which was also nominated for an Edgar. He lives in New York City and Massachusetts, and has just completed his fifteenth novel, Places in the Dark.

  If you enjoyed Thomas H. Cook’s INSTRUMENTS OF NIGHT, you won’t want to miss any of his mesmerizing novels of literary suspense.

  Look for his latest, PLACES IN THE DARK, at your favorite bookseller’s in hardcover, coming in May 2000.

  This edition contains the complete text of

  the original hardcover edition.

  NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.

  INSTRUMENTS OF NIGHT

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  PUBLISHING HISTORY

  Bantam hardcover edition / 1998

  Bantam mass market edition / September 1999

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  Copyright © 1998 by Thomas H. Cook

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-52760

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