Extraordinary Retribution

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank my copyeditor Julia DeGraf, developmental editors John Paine and Kristen Weber, and my family and friends who have supported me in ways too numerous to enumerate (thanks also, The Ninth Configuration).

There hasn’t yet been a Javed Ahmad, but there could have been, and the ghosts of souls broken in dungeons throughout the ages would certainly haunt our societies if they existed. Extraordinary Retribution was written because I heard their voices and could not get them out of my mind. As with The Ragnarök Conspiracy, what you hold in your hands is the product of an exorcism.

Erec Stebbins, September 2013, NYC