No book of this type can be written without the cooperation and input of many people. In this regard, the authors would like to thank the following:
Our publisher at Hachette Books / Black Dog & Leventhal, JP Leventhal. Our editor, Dinah Dunn. Our literary agent, Robert Wilson. Photo editor, Lauren Robinson.
Former Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. Former Chief of Detectives Joseph Borelli.
Current Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce, Lieutenant Patricia Feeley, Sergeant Edward Mullins, President Sergeants Benevolent Association, Sergeant Paul Capotosto and Detective Frank Bogucki, 17 Precinct.
Retired members of the NYPD: Detective Donald Sadowy, Bomb Squad, Detective Gordon Haight, 17 Squad, Police Officer James Burke, 17 Precinct, Police Officer Richard Conte, 13 Precinct, Police Officer Joseph Baldamente, Central Park Precinct, Lieutenant John O’Donohue, Detective Paul Dellaconna, Detective Randy Jurgensen, Detective Arthur Perry, Detective John McNally, Detective Thomas Nerney.
Pat Bailey, spokesman for New York City Department of Corrections.
Carl J. Pelleck, reporter, New York Post retired. David Boyle, photo editor, New York Post.
New York Post librarian Laura Harris and her crackerjack staff of assistants.
Eric Warner, former Bronx Assistant District Attorney.
J. Gilmore Childers, former Assistant Unites States Attorney—Southern District.
Joseph Connor, son of victim from the Fraunces Tavern bombing.
Edward A. McDonald, former Attorney-in-Charge, Federal Organized Crime Strike Force in New York. Special Agent Richard Hahn, FBI retired. Supervisory Special Agent Stephen Carbone, FBI, retired.
Retired New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres.
Family members Margot Mladinich and Jon Whalen.
Lastly, the authors would like to acknowledge the tremendous assistance provided by many other former and current members of the NYPD, and those in other branches of law enforcement who for reasons of their own asked that their names not be mentioned. Their contributions were greatly appreciated.