Target Omega

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many thanks to the outstanding team at Dutton, particularly my editor, Jessica Renheim; my copy editor, Eileen Chetti; and, of course, Ben Sevier. I am grateful to have a remarkable agent in Scott Miller of Trident Media. Many, if not most, authors acknowledge their respective publishing teams as the best in the business. Unless such authors have the same publisher, agent, and editors as I have, those authors, respectfully, are sorely mistaken.

Several others deserve mention, especially my father, now deceased, upon whom Nikolai “Pop” Garin is based; Joe Stimson, whose record of service to the country is the inspiration for Mike Garin’s exploits; and my wife, Kathryn.