Maximum Impact

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I am a pilot. I have extensive experience in Washington, D.C. Yet even that combination proved inadequate to tell this story. I needed a lot of help.

Acknowledgments must begin with Win Blevins, a wonderful friend and author of Western historical novels that you should read if you haven’t already. Over lunch at a Jackson Hole, Wyoming, restaurant one wintry afternoon in 1987, Win heard me spin this tale of intrigue and announced, “If you don’t write that story, I will.” I’ve come to doubt the sincerity of the threat, but I needed to hear it. Through the next year of false starts and self-doubt, he was always willing to serve as advisor, confidant, and gentle critic, amassing favors I will never be able to repay.

Nor could this have worked without the counsel of the late John Galipault, founder and president of the Aviation Safety Institute. Over a twenty-year friendship, John taught me aviation, convinced me to learn to fly, and, during the last months of his life, reviewed this manuscript for technical accuracy.

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