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Excerpt from Killing Time by Caleb Carr, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Killing Time by Caleb Carr

Killing Time

by Caleb Carr
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  • First Published:
  • Nov 1, 2000, 288 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jan 2002, 288 pages
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For it is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge.

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Excerpted from Killing Time by Caleb Carr Copyright© 2000 by Caleb Carr. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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