To Dr. Monica Smiddy, thank you for the detailed and thoughtful medical advice.
To Bob Schule, my eagle reader and world-class consultant.
To Deborah, who helps keep me sane and on schedule.
To Rosemary Bustamante, for your foreign language skills, and for being a great friend.
To Maria Rejt, for making it better from across the pond.
To Cornelius Behen, for the use of your name. Hope you liked the character.
And finally, to the memory of Robert (Bob) Bradley, who never got to see his name in the book but who lives in the hearts and minds of the Bradley and Hope families and all his friends.