Hard Cold Winter (27 page)
Authors: Glen Erik Hamilton
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #United States, #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Thrillers & Suspense, #Crime, #Suspense, #Crime Fiction, #Thrillers
I would like to thank the following people for making
Hard Cold Winter
a warm season:
First, to my editors Lyssa Keusch at William Morrow, and Angus Cargill at Faber & Faber. They have been tremendous collaborators in shaping the novel and adding depth to its characters, and they make a tough job look positively elegant. I am especially grateful for their encouragement and enthusiasm through the challenges of writing a book to deadline, which may be the most unnerving part of any writer’s sophomore effort.
The teams at both houses are the best any author could want. Sincere appreciation and admiration to Danielle Bartlett, Kaitlin Harri, Richard Aquan, Mark Steven Long, and Rebecca Lucash at Morrow, and to Sophie Portas, Luke Bird, and Katherine Armstrong at Faber.
My agent is Lisa Erbach Vance, at the Aaron Priest Literary Agency. Lisa navigates waters for which I not only have no charts, sometimes I’m not even sure I have a boat. Her expertise and understanding keep me afloat, and it’s my great fortune to work with her. Caspian Dennis of the Abner Stein Agency carries the flag superbly for us on the opposite shore; thank you, Caspian.
This novel is fiction, and I occasionally play fast and loose with jurisdictions, geography, methods, or anything else that will keep the story moving, keep the legal teams happy, and keep classified or dangerous information where and with whom it belongs. That said, I have aimed for accuracy wherever possible. I am deeply indebted to the professionals, both named and anonymous, who have lent their hard-won knowledge and experience to the work. From the veterans of the United States Army, those include Christian Hockman, Bco 1/75 Ranger Regiment, and Matt Holmes, 82nd Airborne, 1st Brigade combat team. From law enforcement and emergency services, my thanks to Officer David Jacus and District Ranger Dean Yoshina, both of the U.S. Forest Service, and to Fire Chief Matt Cowan. As always, the really cool stuff is theirs, and any mistakes are mine.
I belong to a writing group led by the amazing teacher and author Jerrilyn Farmer. Her contributions and those from the rest of the Saturday Morning Gang—Beverly Graf, Eachan Holloway, Alexandra Jamison, and John McMahon—can’t be overstated. An extremely talented bunch.
A belated thanks and love to friend Áine Kelly of Galway, Ireland, for providing the Irish Gaelic phrases for my first novel
Past Crimes
. I messed up and left Áine out of the acknowledgments in that book, but hope to make it up to her by stealing even more of her time to help with the next work. We’ll negotiate over pints.
To my family, immediate and extended: I love you. Could never do it without you. Would never want to.
And finally: A piece of every book belongs to those who make time for it. Thank You, Dear Reader.
A native of Seattle,
GLEN ERIK HAMILTON
grew up aboard a sailboat and spent his youth finding trouble around the marinas and commercial docks and islands of the Pacific Northwest. He now lives in California with his family, and frequently returns to his hometown to soak up the rain.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
HARD COLD WINTER
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