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BOOK: Sympathy For the Devil

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He used to like the snow, but didn’t anymore.

Thanks to Maura Lynch, Tessa Ruiz, Andrew Solomon, Debora Oliveira, Melissa Gardella and Tiffany Leigh for providing invaluable insight on this book in its earliest stages.

Thanks to my resident gun experts Blackie Noir and Derek Viljoen for their advice on the various weapons that appear in this book, especially Blackie who first told me about the Ruger .454 Alaskan. They had me at ‘it can core a charging bear’.

Thanks to Lorin and Micheal Mask, Alyson Giller, Melissa Lomax, Eric Frank, Kathy English, Col. A.J. Copp USMC (ret), Col. Christine Voss Copp USAF, C.J. Carpenter, Brian Madden, William Donohue, Wesley Gibson, Liz Thaler, Steve Agovino, Dana Kabel, Charles Salzberg, Will D., Phyllis Sambuco, Mike Consani, Dana King, Mike Reyes, Mae Patel, Richie Narvaez, Anamaria Alfieri, Mark Mannix, Donna Evans, Tanis Mallow and Rob Brunet for their constant encouragement and belief in my work.

Thanks to Mike, Pat, Juan, the two Sams, Cliff, Jeff, the two Adams, Mark and all the gang at the Nat Sherman Townhouse in New York City for all the great times and all the great cigars.

Thanks to Todd Robinson, Matt Hilton, Ron Fortier, Rob Davis, Paul Bishop, Jack Getze and Les Edgerton who believed in me when a lot of people told me to give up writing. Each of you found me at a low-ebb in my writing career and pushed me to keep going.

Thank you to James Grady, whose work ‘Six Days of the Condor’ and the movie based on his work ‘Three Days of the Condor’ caused me to fall in love with this genre at an early age and inspired me to try my hand at this genre.

Thank you to Owen Laukkanen, Jeff Siger, Joe Clifford and Tim O’Mara for their generous support of my work.

Thanks to my agent and part-time therapist Doug Grad of the Doug Grad Literary Agency for knowing how to keep a mad Irishman on course. Thanks to Jason Pinter at Polis Books who was gracious enough to allow me to be part of the impressive, growing Polis family.

And thank you to Arcenia and Rita, without whom none of this would be possible.

My love and gratitude to you all.

The following is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in an entirely fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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