ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank
my agent, Bill Contardi, and my editor, Tom Colgan, for having
faith to take a chance on a rookie, and Eric Boss and Mike
McGroder, for greasing the wheels and to Richard Tuschman, whose
beauty with the brush portrayed so precisely the mood and theme of
the novel. I thank my mentors Judy and Craig Johnson and my wife,
Heather Wendelboe: Without their help, you wouldn’t be reading
this.