The God's Eye View

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Although I’m sure I came up short in various ways, I tried hard to accurately convey the experience of being hearing impaired. In this regard, I’m indebted to two authors:

Andrew Solomon, for Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (New York: Scribner, 2012)

http://www.amazon.com/Far-Tree-Parents-Children-Identity/dp/0743236726/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425696517&sr=1–1&keywords=far+from+the+tree

And Cece Bell, for her wonderfully evocative and moving graphic novel, El Deafo (New York: Amulet Books, 2014)

http://www.amazon.com/El-Deafo-Cece-Bell/dp/1419712179/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425696451&sr=1–1&keywords=el+deafo+by+cece+bell

If you don’t think someone deaf could be as deadly as Manus, you must have missed Andrew Vachss’s Burke books, featuring Max the Silent, the last courier you would ever want to cross. Now you know…

http://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Vachss/e/B000APBFC2

I’m not as technologically savvy as I’d like, which means this article by Micah Lee for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, “Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance,” was perfect for me. Thorough, understandable, and useful.

https://freedom.press/encryption-works

Another great Micah primer on how to keep your online communications private.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/

And from BeYourOwnReason: “Tightening your Security, Safeguarding Your Right to Privacy”

https://medium.com/@beyourownreason/tightening-your-security-safeguarding-your-right-to-privacy-29af5b7a31c

To the extent I get violence right in my fiction, I have many great instructors to thank, including Massad Ayoob, Tony Blauer, Wim Demeere, Dave Grossman, Tim Larkin, Marc MacYoung, Rory Miller, and Peyton Quinn. I highly recommend their superb books and courses for anyone who wants to be safer in the world, or just to create more realistic violence on the page:

http://www.massadayoobgroup.com

http://www.tonyblauer.com

http://www.wimsblog.com

http://www.killology.com

http://www.targetfocustraining.com

http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com

http://www.chirontraining.com

http://www.rmcat.com

Rex Bonomelli presented so many knockout design concepts it made me sad a book can only have one cover. But what a cover!

I like to listen to music while I write, and sometimes a certain band or album gets especially associated with what I’m working on. This time around, the band was Royal Jelly Jive. Listen to lead singer Lauren Michelle Bjelde belt out Pterygophora — the elegance of Nina Simone and the rough grit of Tom Waits, indeed.

http://www.royaljellyjive.com

Ali Watkins, Huffington Post political reporter, helped me better understand the arcane workings of the Senate while the two of us happened to be lurking outside the Room 219 SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) in the Hart Senate Office Building. And Mark Fallon and Steve Kleinman were also generous in sharing their experience from inside the SCIF (experience they’ve gained through tireless efforts to persuade American legislators that torture is a bad idea).

Thanks to Naomi Andrews, Judith Eisler, Blake Crouch, Barton Gellman, Dan Gillmor, Montie Guthrie, Mona Holland, Mike Killman, Lori Kupfer, Daniel Levin, Mark Steven Long, Genevieve Nine, Laura Rennert, Ken Rosenberg, Ted Schlein, Laura Schoeffel, Jennifer Soloway, Derek Thomas, Trevor Timm, and Alan Turkus for helpful comments on the manuscript.

Most of all, thanks to my wife, Laura, also mentioned above, for her help with the manuscript, who I really can’t thank enough. But I’m going to keep trying.