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..............................PART TWO: The Huntsman's Guile 113
..............................PART THREE: A Fire of Bones 247
..............................EPILOGUE 323
..............................AUTHOR'S NOTE 328

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PROLOGUE

Io Pan! lo Pan!
Come over the sea
From Sici1y andfrom Arcady

-Aleister Crowley,
from "Hymm to Pan"

Pan? Pan is dead. Or is that a
pun-Pan-du pain-bread-
peine-pain-the body of Christ?

-Tanith Lee,
from "Blood-Mantle"

M'91TA, August 1983

By the time Eddie "the Squeeze" Pinelli was five hours dead,
Valenti was on a Boeing 747 halfway across the Atlantic. He
sipped~the beer that the steward had brought him and stared out
the window into the darkness. He usually felt an honest regret
that thirgs had to get as far as they did before he was called in,
but not this time. Pinelli had been a capo in the New York City
Cerone Family, one of Don Cerone's special boys, but now the
sonovabitch was dead and the only thing special about him was
that those famous fingers of his weren't going to put the squeeze