ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
With gratitude.
To Mom and Dad, Cathy and John, Stan, Bill
and Melissa.
To Temple and little Katie.
To Michael and Marilyn, Michael and Mardi,
Irving and Sylvia, Carole, Don and Rose,
David, Mitch and Cobray, DeSales, Bobby
Byrd, Missy, Joel, Ira and DeeDee, Peter and
Cathy, and Betty and Dr. Sam Gray.
To George, Eddie, James, Chack, Paul, and the
News department of Channel Five, Atlanta.
To Betsy Nolan, Tommy, Ed, Sidney Sheldon
and Burt.
To Marc Jaffe and Random House, and Nat
Lefkowitz and William Morris -
To an inspiring editor, Peter Gethers.
A wondrous agent, Owen Laster.
And finally in loving memory of the old bear,
Townsend:
So long, Stromboli, wherever you may be.