The Moscow Club
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On top was a letter. “To the Politburo of the Central Committee,” it began. It was signed “V. I. Lenin.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Quite a few people with far more important things to do provided generous help in the writing of this book. I thank, particularly, Doe Coover, Peter Dowd, Ami and Varda Ducovny, Lisa Finder, Randy Garber, Diane Hovenesian and Dr. Robert Berry, Justin Kaplan and Anne Bernays, Bob Lenzner, Gil Lewis, Jan Libourel, Paul McSweeney, Ray Melucci, Detective Paul Murphy of the Boston Police Department, Richard Rhodes, Robie Macauley, Randi Roth, Ranesford Rouner, Rafe Sagalyn, Charlie Smith, Harry Stoia of Boston Lock & Safe, Joe Teig, Rick Tontarski, Jerry Traum, Joe Walker, Tom Wallace, and, for invaluable assistance on the mechanics of terrorism. Jack McGeorge. I thank, too, my friends in the intelligence profession, who of course bear no resemblance whatsoever to the more odious types contained herein.
For medical expertise, I thank Dr. Stan Cole, Dr. Ann Epstein, Dr. Jonathan Finder, C. George Hori, Dr. David Jablons, Dr. William Ka-simer, and Lynn Swindler.
For specialized wisdom in matters of Sovietology, in these peculiar times when the Soviet Union seems to metamorphose by the day, I’m grateful to many friends and colleagues, including Nick Daniloff, Susan Finder, the nationalities expert Lubomir Hajda of the Harvard Russian Research Center, Elena Klepikova, the Lenin scholar Nina Tumarkin, the encyclopedic Kremlinologist Sidney Ploss, and the incomparable Pris-cilla McMillan. For the textures of life in Moscow, I was helped by many here and during my visits to Russia, including Maria Casby, Ruth Daniloff, Andy Katell, Alex Sito, and Misha Tsypkin.
Working with the people at Viking Penguin has been a pleasure,
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particularly my splendid, astute editor, Pam Dorman, who was enthusiastically involved at every turn. And of course 1 must thank the indispensable Danny Baror of the Henry Morrison Agency.
Finally, there are three people without whose generous and patient encouragement 1 couldn’t have done it: Henry Morrison, the most dedicated agent 1 know, adviser and champion; my brother, Henry Finder, brilliant editor and brainstormer; and my wife, Michele Souda, for devoted editorial attention and constant loving support, who was there from the start, in a hammock on Martha’s Vineyard.