Dolphin Drone

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I want to express thanks and deep gratitude to Skyhorse Publishing’s founder and President, Tony Lyons, the preeminent risk-taker in the hyper-competitive book market of New York City; to my editor Alexandra “Alex” Hess and her latent passion for the military thriller genre and her “humanizing” the story even more; to the book’s copy editor Mark Amundsen for asking the right questions; and to Louis Conte, a consultant to Skyhorse Publishing, for making the introduction to the publisher on a different book.

I also want to thank my literary agent, Greg Aunapu of Salkind Literary Agency, for his insights as freelance journalist and agent of the publishing industry and his knowledge of the US Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP) and its trained dolphins, which is quite impressive for anyone inside or outside the publishing world.

I would also like to thank the US Navy Marine Mammal Program, former NMMP spokesman Tom LaPuzza, one of the 1961 program’s founders Dr. Sam Ridgway, and since 2007 is the president of the board and paid director of MMSC, Robert C. Schoelkoph for their help and guidance on the training, feeding, and health care monitoring of the navy dolphins.

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