The Fixer

Acknowledgments

I’m grateful to a number of people for their generous help in researching this book. For help with various medical details: my brother Dr. Jonathan Finder; Dr. Amy Goldstein of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Dr. Carl Kramer; Margaret Naeser, professor of neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Eileen Hunsaker of the Aphasia Center at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions; Dr. Joan Camprodon; and especially Dr. Mark Morocco. For legal matters: Allen Smith and Nick Poser. On public relations: Doug Bailey and George Regan. On renovating the old family house: Bruce Irving; and Doug Hanna and Eileen Lester of S &H Construction.

On the Big Dig, Sean Murphy of The Boston Globe was a huge help; thanks as well to John Durrant of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Timothy Finley of Semke Forensic, and especially Gary Klein of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates. (Some particulars of this mammoth project were changed for fictional convenience.)

Eight-year-old Henry Buckley-Jones was a precocious and patient interviewee. Thanks as well to Harry “Skip” Brandon of Smith Brandon, Jay Groob of American Investigative Services, Lucia Rotelli, Bill Rehder, Bruce Holloway, and Declan Burke. For help with technological details: Jeff Fischbach, Mark Spencer of Arsenal Experts and Kevin Murray. On forensic accounting, Eric Hines of the StoneTurn Group. Zachary Mider of Bloomberg News provided intriguing information on secretive nonprofits. My gratitude once again to Clair Lamb, Karen Louie-Joyce, and the irreplaceable Claire Baldwin. At Dutton, my thanks to Amanda Walker, Christine Ball, Carrie Swetonic, Stephanie Kelly, and especially Ben Sevier. I’m grateful for the loving support of my wife, Michele Souda, and our daughter, Emma J. S. Finder. Thanks most of all to my agent, Dan Conaway of Writers House, and my brother Henry Finder.