ISBN 0-7867-1566-9 Printed and bound in the EU No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publisher. 17th Street New York NY 10011-5300 Q AVALONДЇirst published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2005 First Carroll & Graf edition 2005 Copyright В© Mike Ashley 2005 All rights reserved. He lives in Kent with his wife and over 20,000 books.ДЄlso available The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 The Mammodi Book of Climbing Adventures The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits The Mammoth Book of Elite Forces The Mammoth Book of Endurance and Adventure The Mammoth Book of Explorers The Mammoth Boom of Eyewitness America The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Battles The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest The Mammodi Book of Fantasy The Mammodi Book of Fighter Pilots The Mammodi Book of Future Cops The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories The Mammodi Book of Haunted House Stories The Mammodi Book of Heroes The Mammodi Book of Heroic and Outrageous Women The Mammodi Book of Historical Whodunnits The Mammodi Book of Humor The Mammodi Book of Illustrated Crime The Mammodi Book of Journalism The Mammodi Book of Legal Thrillers The Mammodi Book of Literary Anecdotes The Mammodi Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes The Mammodi Book of Maneaters The Mammodi Book of Men O'War The Mammodi Book of Mountain Disasters The Mammodi Book of Murder and Science The Mammodi Book of Native Americans The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories The Mammodi Book of Prophecies The Mammodi Book of Pulp Action The Mammodi Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits The Mammodi Book of Roman Whodunnits The Mammodi Book of Science Fiction The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles The Mammodi Book of Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll The Mammodi Book of Short Erotic Novels The Mammodi Book of Tales from the Road The Mammodi Book of die Titanic The Mammodi Book of UFOsД¬arroll & Graf Publishers An imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc. He worked for over thirty years in local government but is now a full-time writer and researcher specializing in ancient history, historical fiction and fantasy, crime and science fiction.

Mike Ashley is an author and editor of over seventy books, including many Mammoth titles.

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