The Last Town (The Wayward Pines Trilogy 3) (24 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Deepest gratitude to David Hale Smith, Richard Pine, Alexis Hurley, everyone at Inkwell Management, and to my West Coast fighters, Angela Cheng Caplan and Joel VanderKloot. You’re an extraordinary team, and I’m blessed to have you behind my books.

The folks at Thomas & Mercer and Amazon Publishing—Alan Turkus, Daphne Durham, Jeff Belle, Kristi Coulter, Danielle Marshall, Gracie Doyle, Andy Bartlett, Sarah Tomashek, Reema Al-Zaben, Philip Patrick, Tiffany Pokorny, Nick Loeffler, and Jodi Warshaw—are as fearless a group as I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. I’m thrilled to be on this ride with you.

Thanks to Jacque Ben-Zekry, who edited the hell out of this book and stopped it from sucking in a thousand different ways.

And to Michelle Hope Anderson for a terrific copyedit.

Ann Voss Peterson, Joe Konrath, Marcus Sakey, and Jordan Crouch offered superb feedback and helped me to take this book to another level.

And lastly—most importantly—thank you to my beautiful, wonderful family.

xoxoxoxo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Blake Crouch is the author of over a dozen bestselling suspense, mystery, and horror novels. His short fiction has appeared in numerous short story anthologies,
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
,
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
,
Cemetery Dance
, and many other publications. Much of his work, including the Wayward Pines series, has been optioned for TV and film. Blake lives in Colorado. To learn more, follow him on Twitter or Facebook, or visit his website,
www.blakecrouch.com
.