Sweepers

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to thank It. Bruce Guth and the members of the Fairfax County Homicide Section; Comdr. M. T. Hall of the Navy JAG Corps for organizational advice; the expert on optical weapons, who must remain nameless; Drs. Brooks and Parks for medical pathology reference; Suzanne Olmsted for Doberman lore; Nick Ellison for intense moral support; and George Witte for careful editing. The names and functions of some government entities have been altered deliberately, as have some police procedures and forensics parameters. Any errors and omissions are, of course, mine.

Any resemblance (if the characters described herein to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Nothing in this book-is meant to represent the policies or views of the U.S. Department of Defense.

This is, for the most part, a work of fiction.