Out of the Dark

Acknowledgments

Orphan X would like to convey his gratitude to his Special Operations Group:

— Keith Kahla, Andrew Martin, Sally Richardson, Don Weisberg, Jennifer Enderlin, Alice Pfeifer, Hector DeJean, Paul Hochman, Kelley Ragland, and Martin Quinn at Minotaur Books

— Rowland White and his team at Michael Joseph/Penguin Group UK

— Lisa Erbach Vance and Aaron Priest of the Aaron Priest Agency

— Caspian Dennis of the Abner Stein Agency

— Trevor Astbury, Rob Kenneally, Peter Micelli, and Michelle Weiner of Creative Artists Agency

— Marc H. Glick of Glick & Weintraub and Stephen F. Breimer of Bloom Hergott Diemer et al.

— Geoff Baehr, Philip Eisner, Dr. Melissa Hurwitz, Jay Karnes, Dana Kaye, Dr. Bret Nelson, Billy Stojack (R.I.P.), and Kurata Tadashi

— Simba and Cairo, the lion hunters

— And my favorite trio, Delinah, Rose, and Natalie