The Curse of the King (31 page)

Authors: Peter Lerangis

Photo by Joseph Lerangis

PETER LERANGIS
is the author of more than one hundred and sixty books, which have sold more than five and a half million copies and been translated into thirty-three different languages. These include the first three books in the
New York Times
bestselling Seven Wonders series,
The Colossus Rises, Lost in Babylon
, and
The Tomb of Shadows
, and two books in the 39 Clues series. Peter is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry. He has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquakeâthough not on the same day. He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe. In his spare time, he likes to eat chocolate.

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SEVEN WONDERS BOOK 4: THE CURSE OF THE KING
. Text by Peter Lerangis, copyright Â© 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers. Illustrations copyright Â© 2014 by Torstein Norstrand. Map art by Mike Reagan, copyright Â© 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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ISBN 978-0-06-207049-4 (trade bdg.)

ISBN 978-0-06-237819-4 (int'l ed.)

EPub Edition Â© February 2015 ISBN 9780062070517

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