Hard Rain

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Sarge, Trish, Mike, Jennifer and Sam for reading earlier drafts.

Thanks to Woody for comments and direction.

Thanks to Lieutenant Colonel Michael ‘Panda’ Pandolfo for helping me rewrite the Prologue, for reading and proofing the manuscript, and for the hours of patient schooling (of me).

Thanks to the men and women at Eglin AFB, Langley AFB, Offutt AFB, Kirtland AFB and Vandenberg AFB for showing me around.

Thanks to Dana Drury, for sorting out my website.

Thanks to my lawyer, Eric Feig, and my literary agent, Kathleen Anderson, for making this my day job.

Thanks to Joe Marich, my publicist, and his account manager, Kyle Hensley, for all your great ideas.

Thanks to that towering figure in Australian book publishing, Cate Paterson.

And thanks to you, Sam, for continuing to put up with me.