OTHER BOOKS BY EARL EMERSON
Vertical Burn
Into the Inferno
Pyro
The Smoke Room
THE THOMAS BLACK NOVELS
The Rainy City
Poverty Bay
Nervous Laughter
Fat Tuesday
Deviant Behavior
Yellow Dog Party
The Portland Laugher
The Vanishing Smile
The Million-Dollar Tattoo
Deception Pass
Catfish Café
The Smoke Room
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Earl Emerson
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Emerson, Earl W.
The smoke room: a novel of suspense / Earl Emerson.
p. cm.
1. Fire fighters—Fiction. 2. Theft—Fiction. 3. Bonds—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3555.M39S66 2005
813′.54—dc22 2005041143
eISBN: 978-0-345-48455-0
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