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The Day After Tomorrow
by
Allan Folsom

This is a work of fiction. Characters, organizations, situations and
philosophies are either the product of the author's imagination or, if
real, have been used fictitiously without any intent to describe or
portray their actual conduct.

WARNER BOOKS EDITION

For Karen

Copyright 0 1994 by Allan Folsom All rights reserved.

Cover design Steve Snider/Tom Tafuri

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Printed in the United States of America

First Warner Books Printing: February, 1995

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"The 'how long,' I guess, is up to you. The 'why' is because Interpol
has seven headless corpses they don't know what to do about." Woodward
stuck a file under McVey's nose and walked off.

McVey watched him go, glanced at the other detectives in the room, then
picked up a cup of cold coffee and opened the file. On the upper right
hand corner was a black tab, which, in Interpol circulation, indicated
an unidentified dead body and asked for any possible help in identifying
it. The tab was old. By now the corpses had been identified.

Of the seven bodies, two had been found in England, two in France, one
in Belgium, one in Switzerland and one, washed ashore, near the West
German port of Kiel. All were males and their ages ranged from
twenty-two to fifty-six. All were white and all, apparently, had been
drugged with some sort of barbiturate and then had their heads
surgically removed at precisely the same place in the anatomy.

The killings had occurred from February to August and seemed completely
random. Yet they were far too similar to be coincidental. But that was
all, the rest was completely dissimilar. None of the victims were
related or appeared to have known one another. None had criminal
records or had lived violent lives. And all were from different