Blood Orchid

Acknowledgments

I want to express my thanks to all the people at Putnam who have worked so hard to achieve success for this and past books, particularly my editor, David Highfill, who has been wonderful.

I am always grateful to my literary agents, Morton Janklow and Anne Sibbald, and their superb support group at Janklow amp; Nesbit, for their continuing management of my career over the past twenty-two years. It is important for a writer to know he is in good hands, and I have always appreciated the hands in which I rest.