The Last Temptation. Val McDermid

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Название The Last Temptation
Автор произведения Val McDermid
Жанр Полицейские детективы
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      VAL McDERMID

       The Last Temptation

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2002

      Copyright © Val McDermid 2002

      Val McDermid asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Extract from Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (published by Faber and Faber Ltd) reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007344710

      Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007327621

      Version: 2014-09-28

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       For Cameron Joseph McDermid Baillie:

       not much of a gift by comparison,

       but the best I can do.

       Epigraph

      The last temptation is the greatest treason:

      To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

      Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot

      Only when it is responsible for providing psychological diagnoses for state purposes does psychology really become important.

      Max Simoneit, scientific director of

       Wehrmacht Psychology, 1938

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Part 1

       Part 2

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Part 3

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter