A great big ‘thank you’ to editor Darrah Whitaker, who painstakingly reviewed every chapter more than once. He not only offered valuable critique, but gave us the benefit of the male point of view.
As writers, we sometimes become too close to the work and don’t see what might be missing. Darrah has a very keen sense of the obvious, and sent comments like, “A strong suggestion would be to toughen up Nathan. Be careful not to make him one of the girls.”
May every author be fortunate enough to have a critique buddy and editor like Darrah.
Our thanks also go to members of Henderson Writers Group, Las Vegas NV, who offered very valuable critique during the development process.
It took several years to get this story just right, and we wish to thank all of the people who encouraged and supported us during those years. The plot and scam we created had to be realistic—something that could actually happen.
So thank you to former FBI undercover agent Joaquin “Jack” Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of Making Jack Falcone, for saying it could have done just that. The details were revised every time we discovered something that wouldn’t have flown. Then we had to go back to square one to figure out what could work.
Thanks to friends with and without law-enforcement backgrounds who came to our rescue with suggestions when we were stymied. Several of those are found in the book.