Acknowledgements

I am grateful to a number of people whose brains I have picked to make this work of fiction as authentic as possible. Let me acknowledge here the valuable contributions of Steve Jobbitt, Mary Helen Kaizer, Tom Wood, and Richard Lane. Fire on the Runway has also benefited from the literary advice of Lesley Mann and Robert Ward. This novel started down the road to publication with Napoleon & Company, which subsequently merged with Dundurn Publishing. The support of both firms has been invaluable. Special thanks to Sylvia McConnell and Allister Thompson. Finally, love and gratitude to the critical reader with whom I share my life and to whom this novel is dedicated, Carol Jackson.