The Darkening Archipelago (48 page)

Dr. Josh Slatkoff, my best friend and running companion, who has spent countless hours with me on the trail discussing Cole Blackwater's many problems.

Kathleen Wiebe, for her ongoing effort to make some sense of my sometimes incomprehensible writing.

Thanks to Corporal Darren Lagan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Island District, and Dan Batton of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Coast Guard agency, for explaining the procedural nature of a search at sea.

Thank you to Frances Thorsen of Chronicles of Crime in Victoria, bc for her ongoing counsel on the development of my writing career.

And my thanks to Joel Solomon and Hollyhock, who many years ago provided me with the time and space needed to work on the very first outline of this book.

Stephen Legault has been a social and political activist for twenty years. In July 2005 he launched Highwater Mark Strategy and Communications, an environmental consulting company that advises social-profit companies and ethically driven businesses on their business practices. His first book,
Carry Tiger to Mountain:
The Tao of Activism and Leadership,
was published in April 2006.
The Cardinal Divide
, Legault's first Cole Blackwater mystery, was released in October 2008. For more information, visit
www.coleblackwater.com
.

Legault is the adoring father of two boys, Rio Bergen and Silas Morgen, and loving husband to wife Jenn. They live in Victoria, BC.