Safe House

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We’d like to thank the following people, without whom this book would have not been possible: Diane Duane, for help in rounding out the manuscript; Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Denise Little, and John Helfers at Tekno Books; Mitchell Rubenstein and Laurie Silvers at Hollywood.com; Tom Colgan of Penguin Putnam Inc.; Robert Youdelman, Esquire; Tom Mallon, Esquire; and Robert Gottlieb of the William Morris Agency, agent and friend. We much appreciated the help.

His father had told him repeatedly that everything would be all right. The two things that surprised Laurent, after the fact, were how little he believed this — even though he went along with the plan — and, even though he’d been told there was nothing to be afraid of, how blindingly afraid he was.

The talk between him and his pop had been very light all the way to the train station — chatter about school, and school food, and Laurent’s performance in the last soccer game against Garoafa (it had been terrible — Laurent wished his father wouldn’t keep bringing it up).

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