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  Cover art © 1995 by Lisa Falkenstern

  Cover design Stefanie Rosenfeld

  Cover © 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers

  COPYRIGHT

  DEVIL’S RACE. Copyright © 1984 by Avi Wortis. 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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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Avi, 1937-

  Devil’s race.

  Summary: Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon.

  [1. Ghosts—Fiction. 2. Devil—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.A953Dex 1984

  [Fic]

  84-47636

  ISBN 0-397-32094-9

  ISBN 0-397-32095-7 (lib. bdg.)

  ISBN 0-06-440586-9 (pbk.)

  EPub Edition © February 2016 ISBN 9780062453914

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