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best two character names. Thanks to the Ninth Avenue Men’s Club and everyone at theoutfitcollective.com. Thanks to Pete Henrici and Chris Manolis (better known in my house as “Mr. Chris”) for help with Latin and Greek. Thanks every day to Max and Vaughn.

Thanks to Simon Lipskar, Katie Zanecchia, and Josh Getzler at Writers House, as well as Kassie Evashevski, Josh Getzler, and Nikki Furrer. Thanks to everyone at Knopf, especially Jordan Pavlin, Leslie Levine, Maria Massey, and Erinn Hartman. Thanks to Jim Coudal and everyone at Coudal Partners.

And special thanks to Leticia Mata, and to Elizabeth, Melissa, and Sean Pierson, who do the really important work while I make stuff up and write it down.

a cognizant original v5 release october 13 2010

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Guilfoile has written for McSweeney’s, Salon, The Morning News, and The New Republic. His first novel, Cast of Shadows, has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2010 by Kevin Guilfoile

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Guilfoile, Kevin.

The thousand / Kevin Guilfoile. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-59435-8

1. Mathematics—Fiction. 2. Composers—Fiction. 3. Murder—Fiction.

4. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3607.U48T57 2010

813′.6—dc 22 2010001606

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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