The Protector

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Much of the tradecraft in The Protector has not appeared in fiction before. I learned it from a great many people who have firsthand experience in the high-risk activities depicted here and who were kind enough to teach me. The tactical uses of duct tape, lead fishing sinkers, chamois car-washing cloths, and partially serrated shotgun shells are only a few of the things I was taught. My thanks to the following:

Linton Jordahl, former U.S. marshal. The U.S. Marshals Service ranks with the Secret Service and the Diplomatic Security Service as one of the premier protective units of the United States government.

Don Rosche and Bruce Reichel of the Bill Scott Raceway's Executive Security Driver Training course. Various U.S. government agencies, including the Diplomatic Security Service, send their personnel to BSR to learn defensive and offensive antiterrorist driving techniques. Rather than provide a recipe for committing felonies, I left out a small but important step in hot-wiring vehicles.

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