The Sixes

Acknowledgments

Some terrific people took time out of their demanding jobs to help me in the research for The Sixes, and I am very indebted to them: Jonathan Birbeck, Esq., chief deputy district attorney, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; Cheryl Brown, associate vice chancellor, University of California at Davis; Barbara Butcher, chief of staff, New York City Medical Examiner; Dr. Chet Lerner, chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, New York Downtown Hospital; Dr. Mark Howell, psychotherapist; Dr. Jill Murray, psychotherapist and author; author Sheila Weller; Kenneth Wagner, Ph.D., CLM, water resources manager.

Thank you as well to Kathy Schneider for all her encouragement and support; Sandy Dijkstra for her awesome agenting; Sally Kim for being such a terrific editor; and Maya Ziv for her fabulous eleventh-hour guidance; and Rachel Elinsky for her continuous awesome work on the PR front.