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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
No BOOK CAN be written without the help of legions of good souls who donate their time and energy to the author’s cause. I wish first to thank my wife, Christine Gleason, a natural editor who happens also to be a brilliant physician. Her repeated readings of the manuscript and her observations were invaluable, even the occasional Zzzzzzs she wrote in the margins to note places where the story dragged. My daughters, Kristen, Lauren, and Erin, showed unusual patience in tolerating their father’s predawn disappearances into his office and his mysterious ban on nonessential use of his computer, a prohibition based entirely on his neurotic fear that something catastrophic might befall his manuscript.
My agent, David Black, is that rarest of agents who insists that a book proposal be just exactly right, even in the face of death threats from his authors. He is an excellent human being with an unerring eye for story. My editor, Betty Prashker, was as always a cheerfully assertive voice, prodding me gently for the manuscript and, later, recommending with equal grace that parts of it be destroyed and never seen by any other human reader.
The observations of friends who read all or parts of the manuscript were invaluable. Thanks, then, to Robin Marantz-Henig, who read the entire thing and gave me a detailed structural and stylistic critique, and to Alex Kotlowitz and Carrie Dolan, whose encouragement helped me survive those dark early days when the writing first got under way. I owe a special debt to Hugh E. Willoughby, director of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Virginia Key, Florida, who showed himself to be a deft critic of style as well as meteorological content. Any lingering errors are entirely my fault, not his.
Many archivists and librarians helped make my journey back to Isaac’s time a pleasant one, foremost among them Casey Greene, head of Special Collections, Shelly Henly Kelly, and Anna B. Peebler,