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any thanks to Mauro DiPreta, Lisa Gallagher, and Jennifer Schulkind for helping me make this book my best one yet. Once again, I am also indebted to David Vigliano, Mike Harriot, and Matthew Snyder, the best team of agents any writer could ever hope for. Enormous thanks also to Dana Brunetti and Kevin Spacey, and my entire family at Triggerstreet, who continue to make my life much more exciting than I ever expected it to be.
As always, I am incredibly grateful to my parents, brothers, and their families for their constant support. And to my incredible family in Boston—Tonya, Bugsy, and yes, that damn bird too—I couldn’t do what I do without you. I truly believe I’m the luckiest guy I know.
BEN MEZRICH
has published nine books, including the
New York Times
bestseller
Bringing Down the House
(set to be a Sony picture in March 2008 starring Kevin Spacey). He is a columnist for
Stuff Magazine
and
Boston Common,
and a contributor for
Flush
magazine (U.K.). He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Nonfiction
Bringing Down the House
Ugly Americans
Busting Vegas
Fiction
Threshold
Reaper
Fertile Ground
Skin
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OLDEN
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COTT
Skeptic
The Carrier
Jacket design by Richard Aquan
Jacket photographs: Mercantile stock board by Mark Segal/Getty Images; Wall Street by John Foxx/Getty Images; a landmark of Dubai by Insy Shah/Getty Images; young usinessman wearing sunglasses by Stephen Smith/Getty Images
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