Acknowledgments

Thanks as always to my wife, Elaine, for putting up with my frequent spur-of-the-moment trips from Kentucky to coastal Alabama where, ostensibly there to write and research, I am often found fishing.

Special thanks to Mike Ward, Supervisor, Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Toxicology Laboratory, for superb ideas and input regarding various nasty substances. I employed his ideas at my whim, and any errancies are mine alone.

Thanks also to Julia Wisdom and Anne O’Brien of HarperCollins UK for excellent input and editing.

And finally, thanks to all the folks at the Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency.