Beat the Reaper: A Novel

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TEACHERS Stanley and Doris Tanz, Marvin Terban, Gilbert and Barbara Millstein, Martin Martel, Wendi Dragonfire, Arnold Weinstein, Michael Wilkes

MOVERS Susan Dominus, Markus Hoffmann, Reagan Arthur, Michael Pietsch

SOURCES DESERVING SPECIAL MENTION FOR INFORMATION NOT FOUND ELSEWHERECause of Death: A Leading Forensic Expert Sets the Record Straight, by Cyril H. Wecht, Mark Curriden, and Benjamin Wecht; Guy Shochat; Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, City of New York; New York Aquarium; WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, by Pete Earley and Gerald Shur

SUPPORT IN NEW YORK The Bazell family, Benjamin Dattner, Joanna Fried, the Fried family, Eric Grode, Marc Leonardo, Linda Lewis, C-Lo and the Gang, Marcia Lux, Elizabeth O’Neill, Joseph Rhinewine, Scott Small, David Sugar, Susan Turner, Jason White, Jesse Zanger, Sam Zanger

SUPPORT IN SAN FRANCISCO Joseph Caston, Robert Daroff, Ellen Haller, Cassis Henry, Tamar Hurwitz, Marc Jacobs, Yunnie Lee, Peri Soyugenc, Kim Stopak, my co-residents at UCSF

SUPPORT ELSEWHERE Michael Bennett, Edward Goljan, the Gordon family, Mary Victoria Robbins, Lawrence Stern

CANINE SUPPORT Lottie

SUPPORT ALL OVER THE PLACE, SINCE BIRTH my sister Rebecca Bazell