Innocence

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Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Innocence : a novel / Dean Koontz.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-553-80803-2 (acid-free paper)—

ISBN 978-0-345-53965-6 (eBook)

1. Social isolation—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3561.O55155 2013

813′.54—dc23     2013014516

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