Acknowledgments

I’ve been wanting to write about the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team since I started the Cold Justice series wayback when. Then certain factors conspired against me and I spent a few years exploring other units within the FBI that I was also burning to write about. As a consequence, I feel as if I’ve been building this particular world in my head forever. Now it’s here and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

My thanks, as always, go to my critique partner, Kathy Altman, who has the dubious honor of seeing the messy first draft. Many thanks to Rachel Grant for the great beta read and excellent advice. And also to Jodie Griffin for the feedback and general cheerleading of my books in real life and on Twitter.

Credit to my editors, Deb Nemeth, Joan Turner at JRT Editing, and proofreader, Alicia Dean. Your input is much appreciated. Thanks to my assistant, Jill Glass, who is such a great help when my brain explodes. Thanks also to my amazing cover designer, Regina Wamba, for her gorgeous artwork. Eric G. Dove is (still) on his sailboat recording the audiobook version, living the dream! Thanks for being the voice of the Cold Justice books and for being such an easy person to work with.

Huge amounts of love and gratitude to my husband and kids for their constant support. This one is, again, for Gary. Book #25 published during our twenty-fifth year of marriage. Seems appropriate.