Stalin’s Ghost

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I THANK Ellen Irish Branco, Luisa Cruz Smith, Don Sanders and Annie Lamott for reading Stalin’s Ghost over and over, and Sam Smith for sharing the research at the Moscow Metro Museum.

I also want to acknowledge Doctors Nelson Branco, Michael Weiner, Ken Sack and Wayne Gauger for answers to medical matters and George Young for firearms. In Russia, I was aided by Nina Rubashova, matchmaker; Carl Schreck, reporter; Colonel Alexander Yakovlev, detective; Lyuba Vinogradova, interpreter; Andrew Nurnberg, accomplice; and the Red Diggers of Tver.

First and last, of course, I thank Em.