Also by Howard Andrew Jones
The Desert of Souls
The Waters of Eternity
About the Author
When not helping run his small family farm or spending time with his amazing wife and children, Howard can be found hunched over his laptop or notebook, mumbling about flashing swords and doom-haunted towers. He has worked variously as a TV cameraman, a book editor, a recycling consultant, and a college writing instructor. He was instrumental in the rebirth of interest in Harold Lamb’s historical fiction, and has assembled and edited eight collections of Lamb’s work for the University of Nebraska Press. Prior to their first novel-length adventure, The Desert of Souls, his characters Dabir and Asim appeared in short stories in a variety of publications, and most of those adventures have been compiled in the short-story collection The Waters of Eternity. He blogs regularly at the Black Gate Web site (www.blackgate.com) and maintains a Web outpost of his own at www.howardandrewjones.com.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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THE BONES OF THE OLD ONES. Copyright © 2012 by Howard Andrew Jones. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Ervin Serrano
Cover illustration by Steve Stone
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Jones, Howard A.
The bones of the old ones / Howard Andrew Jones.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-64675-2 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-01513-6 (e-book)
1. Human remains (Archaeology)—Iran—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3610.O62535B66 2012
813'.6—dc23
2012016318
e-ISBN 9781250015136
First Edition: December 2012
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