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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A debt of gratitude to Emily Bestler, Jason Kaufman, Ben Kaplan, and everyone at
Pocket Books for
their belief in this project.
To my friend and agent, Jake Elwell, for his enthusiasm and unflagging effort.
To the legendary George Wieser, for convincing me to write novels.
To my dear friend Irv Sittler, for facilitating my audience with the Pope,
secreting me into parts of Vatican
City few ever see, and making my time in Rome unforgettable.
To one of the most ingenious and gifted artists alive, John Langdon, who rose
brilliantly to my impossible
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challenge and created the ambigrams for this novel.
To Stan Planton, head librarian, Ohio University-Chillicothe, for being my
number one source of
information on countless topics.
To Sylvia Cavazzini, for her gracious tour through the secret Passetto.
And to the best parents a kid could hope for, Dick and Connie Brown . . . for
everything.
Thanks also to CERN, Henry Beckett, Brett Trotter, the Pontifical Academy of
Science, Brookhaven
Institute, FermiLab Library, Olga Wieser, Don Ulsch of the National Security
Institute, Caroline H.
Thompson at University of Wales, Kathryn Gerhard and Omar Al Kindi, John Pike
and the Federation of
American Scientists, Heimlich Viserholder, Corinna and Davis Hammond, Aizaz Ali,
the Galileo Project of
Rice University, Julie Lynn and Charlie Ryan at Mockingbird Pictures, Gary
Goldstein, Dave (Vilas)
Arnold and Andra Crawford, the GlobalFraternal Network, the Phillips Exeter
Academy Library, Jim
Barrington, John Maier, the exceptionally keen eye of Margie Wachtel,
alt.masonic.members, Alan
Wooley, the Library of Congress Vatican Codices Exhibit, Lisa Callamaro and the
Callamaro Agency, Jon
A. Stowell, Musei Vaticani, Aldo Baggia, Noah Alireza, Harriet Walker, Charles
Terry, Micron
Electronics, Mindy Homan, Nancy andDick Curtin, Thomas D. Nadeau, NuvoMedia
andRocket E-books,
Frank and Sylvia Kennedy, Rome Board of Tourism, Maestro GregoryBrown, Val
Brown, Werner
Brandes, Paul K...

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