This book is dedicated to my newsletter group,
the Femmes Fatale (http://members.aol.com/femmesweb),
who make me laugh more than I have since I left college.
My thanks to Larry Price and Pat Downs, who described being blown up; and to members of my karate class, who kindly enacted fight sequences and offered various lethal suggestions. Dr. John Alexander has also been polite about answering some very peculiar questions.