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I’d like to thank my agent, Allan Guthrie, for his advice and his patience. Thank you to my editors, Terry Goodman at Thomas & Mercer, and Francesca Main at Simon & Schuster. Thanks to my early readers, Kurt Dinan, John Mantooth, Eric Smetana, John Hornor Jacobs, Stephen Sommerville, and Sean Doolittle for their time, their generosity, and their invaluable insight during the early drafts of this novel. I’d also like to express my sincere gratitude to Jeff Belle, Sarah Tomashek, Jacque Ben Zekry, David Downing, and everyone on the Thomas & Mercer team for their hard work, their passion, and their unmatched dedication to their books and their authors. Most of all, I’d like to thank my wife, Amy, for her love and her support, and for believing when I didn’t.