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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Brown, James William, 1942– author.

Title: My last lament / James William Brown.

Description: First edition. | New York : Berkley Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016004357 (print) | LCCN 2016017033 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399583407 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399583414 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3552.R68566 M9 2017 (print) | LCC PS3552.R68566 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016004357

International edition ISBN: 9780399586804

First Edition: April 2017

Cover design © Katie Anderson

Cover photographs: WWII Bf109 © Stuart Gleave / Getty Images; White church in Greece © spooh / Getty Images

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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