The Target

Acknowledgments

To Michelle, for more reasons than I can list.

To Mitch Hoffman, for being a great editor and an even better friend.

To Michael Pietsch, Jamie Raab, Lindsey Rose, Sonya Cheuse, Emi Battaglia, Tom Maciag, Martha Otis, Karen Torres, Anthony Goff, Bob Castillo, Michele McGonigle, Erica Warren, and everyone at Grand Central Publishing for doing your job so well.

To Aaron and Arleen Priest, Lucy Childs Baker, Lisa Erbach Vance, Frances Jalet-Miller, John Richmond, and Melissa Edwards, for supporting me in every way.

To Nicole James, best of luck in your new adventure!

To Anthony Forbes Watson, Jeremy Trevathan, Maria Rejt, Trisha Jackson, Katie James, Natasha Harding, Lee Dibble, Stuart Dwyer, Stacey Hamilton, James Long, Anna Bond, Sarah Willcox, Geoff Duffield, and Jonathan Atkins at Pan Macmillan, for continuing to keep me at number one in the UK and being so bloody good!

To Praveen Naidoo and his team at Pan Macmillan in Australia.

To Arabella Stein, Sandy Violette, and Caspian Dennis, for taking care of me so well.

To Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy, for your outstanding audio performances.

To Steven Maat, Joop Boezeman, and the Bruna team, for keeping me at the top in Holland.

To Bob Schule, for always being there for me.

To auction winners Linda Spitzer and Andrew Viola, I hope you like your characters.

To Roland Ottewell, for a great copyediting job.

And to Kristen, Natasha, and Lynette, for keeping me reasonably sane!