The Gone World

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Copyright © 2018 by Thomas Sweterlitsch

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sweterlitsch, Tom, author.

Title: The gone world / Tom Sweterlitsch.

Description: New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016049048 (print) | LCCN 2016057341 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399167508 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780698142763 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Time travel—Fiction. | Criminal investigation—Fiction. | GSAFD: Science fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3619.W48 G66 2018 (print) | LCC PS3619.W48 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049048

p. cm.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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