Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank the following people for the gracious donation of their expertise. The responsibility for the uses to which I put their knowledge is entirely mine. The pseudonymous Ms. Valens at security; Reverend James May-worm; Mark Schutz, M.D.; Officer Adam Schutz, MCPD; Neil Ruther, attorney-at-law; Chief Wade Pelletier and Officer Margie Young of the Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, Police Department; Captain Franko of the MAKO; Jim Holliday, adult cinema’s leading archivist and critic; Meg Hennigan; and Steven Spruill who believed I could write long before there was any reason to.