I would also like to thank Carolyn Marino, who has taken over from Gladys during the production and promotion stages, for her hard work on my behalf.
My agents, Morton Janklow and Anne Sibbald, and all the people at Janklow & Nesbit, continue to labor on my behalf, always with excellent results, and they, as always, have my gratitude.
I want to thank Melody Miller, Deputy Press Secretary to Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who has always been there to supply the political background and verisimilitude so necessary for novels like this. I am grateful for her help and her continuing friendship.
My wife, Chris, is always my first reader and most fearless critic, and I thank her for her candor and her love.