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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In the past couple of years since my first novel, The Devil’s Right Hand, came out, I’ve been fortunate to meet and hang out with the wonderful and supportive people who make up the crime fiction community. A list of all the folks who’ve offered encouragement would take up several pages, but here’s a partial one: Duane Swierczynski; Ken Bruen; Jason Starr; Allan Guthrie; Jon and Ruth Jordan of Crimespree Magazine; David Thompson and McKenna Jordan of Murder by the Book in Houston; Janine Wilson at Seattle Mystery Bookshop; Toni and Steve Kelner for crash space, pep talks and the tour of Boston; Laura Lippman for sound advice and excellent company on a long journey; J. A. Konrath for his generosity in sharing the things he’s learned about the business end of writing; Tasha Alexander and Kristy Kiernan (aka The Honorable Companions); Nathan Singer; Bob Morris; Pat Mullan; Stephen Blackmoore; Lori G. Armstrong; Victor Gischler; Sean Doolittle; Chris Everheart; Kim Mizar-Stem; Stacey Cochran; and, of course, David Terrenoire. See you on the road, my friends.

As far as the research goes, thanks to Chris Wilson of Cape Town for pointers on Afrikaner slang and idioms; and to former Staff Sgt. Mark “Markey D” Ivey, currently of Darmstadt, Germany, for laughs. Yo, respect…

Thanks also to my long-suffering webmistress at jd.rhoades.com, Beth Tindall.

Play with murder enough, it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.

—Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest