by Jeff Abbott
70: St. Petersburg, Russia
71: Above Russia
72: Finland
73: The Border Zone, Russia
74: The Border Zone, Russia
75: Northern Virginia
Acknowledgments
ALSO BY JEFF ABBOTT
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Jeff Abbott
Cover design by Blanca Aulet
Cover photograph of man by Roy Bishop/Arcangel Images
Cover photograph of Red Square, Moscow by Spaces Images/Blend Images/Getty Images
Cover copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Abbott, Jeff.
The first order / Jeff Abbott. — First Edition.
pages ; cm. — (Sam Capra series)
ISBN 978-1-4555-5841-4 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4789-0275-1 (audio download) — ISBN 978-1-4555-5840-7 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3601.B366F57 2016
813'.6—dc23
2015029473
Printed in the United States of America.
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