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Authors: John Katzenbach

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The Wrong Man (74 page)

The Traveler

In the Heat of the Summer

NONFICTION

First Born: The Death of Arnold Zeleznik, Age Nine:

Murder, Madness and What Came After

The Wrong Man
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

Copyright © 2006 by John Katzenbach

 

All rights reserved.

 

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

 

B
ALLANTINE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Katzenbach, John.

The wrong man : a novel / John Katzenbach.

p. cm.

I. Title.

 

PS3561.A7778W76 2006

813'.54—dc22

2006048254

 

www.ballantinebooks.com

eISBN: 978-0-345-49545-7

v3.0

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

1 The History Professor and the Two Women

2 A Man of Unusual Anger

3 A Young Woman of Ordinary Ignorance

4 A Conversation That Meant More Than Words

5 Nameless

6 A Taste of What Was to Come

7 When Things Began to Become Clear

8 A Beginning of Panic

9 Two Different Meetings

10 A Poor Start

11 The First Response

12 The First Wayward Plan

13 The Most Modest of Goals

14 Foolishness

15 Three Complaints

16 A Series of Gordian Knots

17 A World of Confusion

18 When Things Got Worse

19 A Change of Approach

20 Actions, Right and Wrong

21 A Series of Possible Missteps

22 Vanishing

23 Anger

24 Intimidation

25 Security

26 The First Intrusion

27 The Second Intrusion

28 A Fast Drive

29 A Shotgun on the Lap

30 A Conversation about Love

31 Running from Something Unseen

32 The First and Only Plan

33 Some Hard Decisions

34 The Woman Who Loved Cats

35 A Single Boot

36 The Pieces on the Board

37 An Enlightening Conversation

38 A Measure of Evils

39 The Start of an Imperfect Crime

40 A Run through the Shadows

41 Unfolding

42 The Gun in the Shoe

43 The Open Door

44 Making Choices

45 A One-sided Phone Call

Epilogue

About the Author

Also by John Katzenbach

Copyright

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