ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARK MILLS graduated from Cambridge University in 1986. He has lived in both Italy and France and has written for the screen. His first novel, Amagansett, was a national bestseller and also won the British Crime Writer’s Association Award for Best Novel by a debut author. His second, The Savage Garden, was a number one bestseller in the UK. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
The Information Officer is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Mark Mills
Maps copyright © 2010 by Daniel R. Lynch
All rights reserved.
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Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers,
London, in 2009.
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Mills, Mark
The information officer: a novel / Mark Mills.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-910-9
1. World War, 1939–1945—Malta—Fiction. 2. British—Malta—
Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Malta—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3613.I569I64 2009 813′.6—dc22 2009020047
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Dedication
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Day Eight
Day Nine
Historical Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright