MANDARIN PLAID (Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series) (28 page)

MANDARIN PLAID
. Copyright © 1996 by S. J. Rozan. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

For Willy and Simon

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CKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to

My agent, Steve Axelrod

My editor, Keith Kahla

every writer should be so lucky

Jim Finney, Royal Huber, Ellen Kornhauser, Jamie Scott, Lawton Tootle, and Betsy the Plotmeister Harding

Susanna the Other Plotmeister Bergtold

Helen Liu and Beebee Lam, who let me in

John Leffler, who loaned me books both seminal and germinal

Steve Blier, Hillary Brown, Bart Gulley, Sally Helgesen, Julia Moskin, and Max Rudin, who put up with a lot for this one

Sui Ling Tsang, a great coach

Deborah Peters, a great genius

and

Helen Hester, because, and Nancy Ennis, anyway