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A Weidenfeld & Nicolson ebook
First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
This ebook edition published in 2017 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
First published in Russian by Zakharov Publications, Moscow, Russia in 2010
Copyright © Boris Akunin 2010
English translation copyright © Andrew Bromfield 2017
The moral right of Boris Akunin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
Andrew Bromfield has asserted his right to be identified as the author of the English translation of the work.
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, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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