I’d like to thank, once again, everyone at my publisher, St. Martin’s Press. They continue to believe in me and to push so hard to get my books out there, with an enthusiasm that’s almost unheard of, and which I never take for granted. At the risk of leaving important people out, let me mention in particular: President and Publisher Sally Richardson; John Sargent, CEO of Holtzbrinck USA; Matthew Shear, vice president and publisher of SMP’s paperback divisions; Marketing Director Matt Baldacci; Ronni Stolzenberg of Marketing; Publicity Director (and olive-loaf aficionado) John Murphy; Gregg Sullivan and Elizabeth Coxe in Publicity; Brian Heller in paperback sales; George Witte; Christina Harcar; Nancy Trypuc; Alison Lazarus; Jeff Capshew; Andy LeCount; Ken Holland; Tom Siino; Rob Renzler; Jennifer Enderlin; Bob Williams; Sofrina Hinton; Anne Marie Tallberg; Mike Rohrig (now of Scholastic); and Gregory Gestner; and at Audio Renaissance, Mary Beth Roche, Joe McNeely, and Laura Wilson.
Keith Kahla, my editor, deserves his own set of acknowledgments. Thank you, friend, for everything you’ve done. You’re truly the best.
My agent, Molly Friedrich of the Aaron Priest Agency, was great as ever, as supporter and protector and incisive reader. Thanks, too, to Paul Cirone at the agency.
My wife, Michele Souda, was a valuable reader and editor of the manuscript. Not only did our daughter, Emma, have to put up with an almost-absentee father during the last months of the writing of Killer Instinct, but her baseball obsession inspired a key part of this book.
And finally, my brother, Henry Finder, editorial director of The New Yorker: you had my back, as they say (but you never would). From the genesis of the story to the final edits, you were invaluable. I can’t thank you enough.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Vanished and Buried Secrets. Finder’s international bestseller Killer Instinct won ITW’s Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include Paranoia and High Crimes, both of which became major motion pictures. He lives in Boston.
