Let me start with Imaging, my wife, my life, my love, and my partner. Thank you, dear woman, for your hours of work and devoted attention here, your continued support, your sound insights, your faith in both me and my work, and your belief in its value. I could neither live nor write without you.
Thank you, John Sargent, for taking precious time out of a life overflowing with demands to find room for me, for never giving up on this old Wyoming man, and for putting me with Tim Bartlett. Your friendship, tolerance, and faith in me have been a treasured gift.
Thank you, Tim Bartlett, for seeing something of worth in me both as a writer and as a member of the species. Thank you for your dedicated work here, for your patience, your caring, and for making me, at this late date, a better writer. India Cooper was the copy editor here. She is magical. Her copy edits reflected a deep understanding of the stories, and the eye of a compassionate eagle. She revealed what old eyes could not see, and I am so grateful. And my thanks to Claire Lampen, editorial assistant, who reminds me of a Wyoming cowgirl keeping the herd together and the strays where they belong.
Thank you, Peter Lampack, my agent and friend, for always being there with sound advice and caring and your willingness to fight for what is right.
Thanks to my clients, both living and dead, who believed in me. I thank Randy Weaver and his family, Brandon and Mona Mayfield, the Kaady family, the Singer family, Geoffrey Fieger, and Imelda Marcos. Thank you, Peter King, for your friendship to both me and our mutual client, Dennis Williams. And thanks to Albert Hancock, who never lost faith.
I thank the loyal, supportive members of my law firm, one and all, who have always been there for me. I thank you, my partner, Ed Moriarity. When I went into battle your brilliance and loyalty, along with your willingness to lay it all down for me and our clients, made the difference for them and for me. You will always occupy your special place in my heart. Thank you, Bob Schuster, for your mammoth, unheralded work in the Singer case. And thank you for our years together and your friendship.
Thank you, Laury McGinnis, for your loyal support these more than twenty years as my assistant, and thank you, Rosemary McIntosh, for your help and friendship as my assistant for the decades before that.
I am grateful to my publisher, and to the fine crew of publicists and marketers without whose support the message of this book would remain in the shadows.