12.21

Also by DUSTIN THOMASON

The Rule of Four

(with Ian Caldwell)

Copyright

12.21 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 © 2012 by Dustin Thomason

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by The Dial Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Dial Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Thomason, Dustin.

12.21 : a novel / Dustin Thomason.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-385-34140-0

eBook ISBN 9 7 8 - 0 - 67 9 - 6 4 4 2 8 - 6

1. Mayas—Antiquities—Fiction. 2. Manuscripts—Fiction. 3. Prophecies—Fiction. 4. Communicable diseases— Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Twelve twenty-one.

PS3620.H646A614 2012

813’.6—

dc23 2012001945

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

www.dialpress.com

2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1

FIRST EDITION

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