The Art of the Heist

Acknowledgments

For their invaluable help with the completion of this project, the writers wish to thank Suzanne King, Charlie Moore, Martha Ferrante, Billy Oikle, Earle Cooley, Marty Leppo, and Dan Conaway. Thanks also to Bruce Nichols, Adam Rosen, superhero copy chief Amy Vreeland, and everyone else at HarperCollins who helped turn this manuscript into a book. The writers are especially grateful to Al Dotoli, a true friend and a terrific manager, whose contributions to this book and Myles’s career in general cannot be overstated. Al knows Myles better than anyone, and without his help this story could not have been told.

The episodes depicted in this book cover a specific and relatively brief time period. As a result, many of Myles’s closest friends and family members were not mentioned. Additionally, certain individuals were purposefully excluded, either because they could not be located for permission, or because they asked that their names not be used. Myles wishes to express his personal gratitude to the following people: Vicky, Kim, and Myles III; Patsy and Steve Harrington, their son, Bobby, and their daughter, Kelly; Myles’s half brothers, Father Sean Connor and Jamie Connor (one of the finest men to ever wear the badge), and his half sisters, Erin and Katy; Robert and Joan Paton; Chris and Doug Connors; Billy Roach; Billy Libby; Joe Rego; Matthew Norris; Peter Walsh; Bean; Lenny “The Mechanic” Biondi and Jimmy “The Fixer” Biondi; Jimmy McGettrick, owner of the Beachcomber; Pat Nee; Dr. Anthony Von Vought; Jimmy Martorano; Tommy Cass (you’ll always be my pal); Moya Kinneally; Katherine Pederson (the nicest person I’ve ever met); Phillip and Dorothy Senna; J. D. Mix; Rocco Ellis; Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg; Warren and Kaye Dougan; the Petrozziello family; the King family; Emmy Lou Dunbar Pinkham; Tim and Richard Steinmetz; Philip Demerzia; Ruth Engles; Anthony “the Animal” Felela; Jimmy “the Rooster” Reagon; Donnie “the Detailer”; Tom Mashberg; and the many others who prefer to remain unnamed. Myles would also like to acknowledge all those doing time, as well as the men and women of the badge, the vast majority of whom are decent and honorable people. Finally, to Ozzy DePriest, Ralph Petrozziello, and all those who have passed on: may you rest in peace.