The Prince in Waiting

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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This Aladdin paperback edition February 2015

Text copyright © 1970 by John Christopher

Cover illustration copyright © 2015 by Anton Petrov

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Jacket designed by Karin Paprocki

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Interior designed by Hilary Zarycky

The text of this book was set in Venetian 301.

Library of Congress Control Number 2014953351

ISBN 978-1-4814-1992-5 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4814-1991-8 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4814-1993-2 (eBook)