Out of the Ashes

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In 1996, then-first lady Hillary Clinton wrote the book It Takes a Village. Reviving Tom Clancy’s Op-Center series was a momentous undertaking and it took a village of family, friends, colleagues, and others we reached out to in order to make Out of the Ashes a book that could live up to our expectations — and especially to the expectations of readers of the twelve previous Op-Center books — as well as our new Op-Center readers. Many thanks to the following who contributed their time and talent so unselfishly: Bill Bleich, Anne Clifford, Ken Curtis, Melinda Day, Jeff Edwards, Herb Gilliland, Kate Green, Kevin Green, Krystee Kott, Robert Masello, Laurie McCord, Scott McCord, Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, Bob O’Donnell, Jerry O’Donnell, Norman Polmar, Curtis Shaub, Scott Truver, Sandy Wetzel-Smith, and Ed Whitman.

Additionally, Out of the Ashes would not have been possible — nor would it have been produced so professionally — without the expertise and persistence of our agent, John Silbersack, our editor, Charlie Spicer, as well as Mel Berger, Robert Gottlieb, Madeleine Morrel, April Osborn, Matthew Shear, and Anna Wu.