My agent, George Nicholson, has been unstintingly supportive of this book and me, as has Caitlin McDonald. Melanie Cecka has again proven a wise diagnostician and deft surgeon. I feel extremely lucky to be reunited.
Friends and my extended Bell-Kahn-Gwardyak-Breitbart-Diggory-Entin-Ouk clan have been helping me keep the dream alive, especially all my Kahn-Diggory-Entin-Bell-Ouk nieces and nephews who read and ask for more. Seeing my own children’s interest in my books is the thrill of a lifetime. Rick: I might have been able to do this without you, but never as happily.