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Copyright © 2010 by Catherine Coulter

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coulter, Catherine.

Whiplash / Catherine Coulter.

p. cm.

ISBN 9781101457436

1. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation-Fiction.

2. Savich, Dillon (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

3. Sherlock, Lacey (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

4. Murder-Investigation-Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.0843W47 2010 2010009114

813'.54-dc22

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