Acknowledgments

For believing in this book, I am indebted to my agent, Lisa Bankoff, and my editor, Claire Wachtel. I also need to thank those who have stood the true measure of friendship, Art Monterastelli, Manuel Palacios and Orlando Ramirez. I am likewise thankful for the love of my sons, Andrew, Logan and Nate, and their mother, Heidi, who endured too much. I am grateful to Amanda, Frank Ferro, Donna French, Maury Hirshberg, Kerry Kohn, Peter Schroeder and Jervey Tervelon. Special thanks go to Oakley Hall for his support from the very beginning. And to the woman without whom this book would never have been written, I credit my wife, Paula Priamos-Brown, for giving me a new life.