Die a Stranger

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks as always to the “usual suspects,” new and old-Bill Keller and Frank Hayes, Peter Joseph and everyone at Minotaur Books, Bill Massey and everyone at Orion, Jane Chelius, Euan Thorneycroft, Maggie Griffin, Mary Alice Kier and Anna Cottle, MWA, Bob Randisi and PWA, Bob Kozak and everyone at IBM, Nick Childs, David White, Elizabeth Cosin, Jeff Allen, Rob Brenner, Jan Long, Phil and Dennise Hoffman, Taylor and Liz Brugman, Larry Queipo, former chief of police, Town of Kingston, New York, and Dr. Glenn Hamilton from the Department of Emergency Medicine, Wright State University.

Also, to the memory of Ruth Cavin.

And as always, to Julia, my best friend more than ever; to Nicholas, who has the biggest heart of anyone I know; and to Antonia, who amazes me every single day.