Bitter Truth (51 page)

Acknowledgments

F
or their generous help with this manuscript, I’d like to thank Richard Goldberg, Marilyn Lashner, Carolyn Marino, Joseph R. Rackman, Pete Hendley, who handed me a shark inside Belize’s barrier reef, and my medical staff of Dr. Bret Lashner, gastroenterology; Dr. Michael Lauer, cardiology; Dr. Fred Baurer, psychiatry, and Dr. Barry Fabius, putting and the short game.

I wish also to thank the United States Navy and especially Warren Christensen, Public Affairs Specialist assigned to the Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station, Carderock Division, NSWC, for providing access to and information about the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Guillermo Chuc, of San Jose Succotz, who guided me around the ruins of Caracol, was of immeasurable help in my understanding of the Maya. I need also mention my friend Steven Grey, not for any help he provided with the manuscript, but because he sang like Elvis at my wedding.

Judith Regan, my editor, has given me nothing but encouragement and I am forever grateful for her enthusiasm and sage advice. She is one of those rare brave souls who ask for something different and then don’t flinch when they get it.

Finally, a writer’s raw material is time and so for giving me the time I needed to finish this book I give hugs and kisses to Nora, Jack, and especially Michael, who waited until my revisions were completed before entering our world. My wife, Pam, of course, gave me all the time I needed years before I was getting paid and so whatever I accomplish as a writer is her accomplishment too.

About the Author

William Lashner
is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was a criminal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice. His novels —
Fatal Flaw; Bitter Truth; Hostile Witness
— have been published worldwide in ten languages. He lives with his family outside of Philadelphia.

By William Lashner

Hostile Witness

Bitter Truth
(originally published as
Veritas
)

Fatal Flaw