For Walter and Marion Minton

 

 

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

 

Copyright (c) 1980 Robert A. Heinlein

 

All rights reserved

 

Published by Fawcett Columbine Books, a unit of CBS Publications, the Consumer Publishing Division of CBS Inc.

 

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

 

Illustrations copyright (c) 1980 Richard M. Powers

 

ISBN:   0-449-90019-3

 

Printed in the United States of America