DEDICATION

For my readers. Without readers, writing is like having sex with yourself. The feedback you get for your performance is ultimately flawed. For Bob Parker, my guru on all things electronic and explosive. Bob helped me immensely in making the crime accurate. He’s the one who came up with the idea for a climbers’ harness to hook the wiring for the bomb inside so it couldn’t be taken off without exploding the bomb. When I was finished, Bob read it and proclaimed it, indeed, “the perfect crime.” He told me I could either do the crime myself or publish it and that I’d probably make a lot more money if I did the crime. It’s been tempting, but I’m going with publication. We’ll see… Bob also said it was a template for a perfect crime and that I should leave out or change at least one element so my outlaw friends couldn’t follow it and I’ve done that. I initially wrote this back in the mid-90’s and at the time I came up with the idea no one had ever tried anything like this. Since then, at least a couple of folks have and they all got caught. And, they were caught for things they could have avoided if this book had been out then… Sorry, guys… you should have waited…

 For my superb agent, Chip MacGregor, who’s the best. For my publisher, Aaron Patterson, who saw this as a book readers would enjoy. For my brothers behind bars and particularly the guys in Pendleton—this one’s for you. And, as always, for my wife Mary and my three wonderful kids, Mike, Sienna and Britney—you guys rock.