Acknowledgments

Barry Fishler deserves all due credit for the title. Jo Anne Vaughn and Mike Bateman read the rough drafts for me. Max Campanella looked over the gun stuff and took me shooting. Brian Whitehead kept calling me, demanding blood—I hope this satisfies him. In 2005, Jean Hortman read the ARC of the first book in less than two hours at a party and since then has poured out fountains of encouragement and sanity checks, for which I'm eternally grateful.

As usual, my editor Jaime Levine made this a better book. Thanks also to Ashley Grayson and Company, for herding cats, or Kitty, as it were.

The Playlist

Billie Holiday, "They Can't Take That Away From Me"

Shonen Knife, "Milky Way"

Pretenders, "Talk of the Town"

The Clash, "Clash City Rockers"

Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Commotion"

Stephen "Tintin" Duffy, "Kiss Me"

Sinead O'Connor, "You Do Something to Me"

Peggy Lee, "Fever"

Front 242, "The Untold"

The Dresden Dolls, "Missed Me"

The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go"

The Beatles, "Hey Bulldog"

Depeche Mode, "Home"