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THE MARK OF RAN

A Bantam Spectra Book / December 2005

Originally published 2004 by Bantam Press, a division of Transworld Publishers (UK)


Published by Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York


All rights reserved

Copyright © 2004 by Paul Kearney

Decorative map © Neil Gower


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kearney, Paul.

The Mark of Ran / Paul Kearney.

p. cm.—(The sea beggars ; bk. 1)

eISBN: 0-553-90216-4

I. Title. II. Fantasy fiction.


PR6061.E2156   M37   2005

823'.914—dc22

2005047238


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