The Innocent

Acknowledgments

ONCE AGAIN, a nod of gratitude to Carole Baron, Mitch Hoffman, Lisa Johnson, Kara Welsh, and all at Dutton, NAL, and Penguin Group USA; Jon Wood, Malcolm Edwards, Susan Lamb, Jane Wood, Juliet Ewers, Emma Noble, and the gang at Orion; Aaron Priest and Lisa Erbach Vance for all the usual stuff.

A special thanks to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. He constantly shows me the beauty of his state and her inhabitants, even if, for the sake of drama, I end up putting my own spin on them.

The author also wishes to thank the following for their technical expertise:

• Christopher J. Christie, United States Attorney for the state of New Jersey;

• Paula T. Dow, Essex County (NJ) Prosecutor;

• Louie F. Allen, Chief of Investigators, Essex County (NJ) Prosecutor's Office;

• Carolyn Murray, First Assistant Essex County (NJ) Prosecutor;

• Elkan Abramowitz, attorney extraordinaire;

• David A. Gold, MD, surgeon extraordinaire;

• Linda Fairstein, lotsa-things extraordinaire;

• Anne Armstrong-Coben, MD, Medical Director of Covenant House Newark and just plain extraordinaire;

• And for the third straight book (and final time), Steven Z. Miller, MD, Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. You taught me about much more than medicine, my friend. I will miss you always.