The Crocodile Nest (18 page)

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HarperCollins
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First published 2010
This edition published in 2010

by HarperCollinsPublishers
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Copyright © Des Hunt 2010

Des Hunt asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Hunt, Des, 1941-

The crocodile nest / Des Hunt.

ISBN: 978 1 8695 0828 9 (pbk.)

ISBN: 978 0 7304 4550 0 (ePub)

[1. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 2. Australia—Fiction.] I. Title.

NZ823.3—dc 22

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