With huge thanks as always for your Herculean efforts… we’d be sunk without you.

As always my deepest thanks to my extremely talented and patient editor Aoife Barrett of Barrett Editing who works her magic on the manuscript every time to make it legible and understandable. Over the years Aoife has become an expert on the subject of organized crime.

We owe much to editor Aoife Barrett for reshaping and improving our original raw efforts.

Thanks to my editor Aoife Barrett for her painstaking attention to detail and clarity of mind. Thanks for all your help and patience.

Aoife Barrett is a brilliant editor to deal with. She has a great ability to write comprehensive cover/art briefs, with clear guidelines which are easy to follow and make sure time isn’t wasted. She is organised and flexible and was happy to take my input on board. She has excellent communication skills and is very focused and efficient. She expertly managed all her projects so that cover proofs and feedback were all handled very efficiently and deadlines were realistic. Her attention to detail was outstanding and I’d be very happy to collaborate with her again in the future.

In particular my thanks, as always to my extremely talented and patient, editor, Aoife Barrett of Barrett Editing. I don’t know what I would do without Aoife’s razor-sharp insights and understanding of the genre, and her in-depth knowledge of organized crime.

We would like to acknowledge the immense support and expertise provided by our ever-patient editor, Aoife Barrett. Thanks so much for your expertise and help over the past few months. It’s been a fairly seamless process due in large measure to your knowledge and hard work.

In writing this book I would like to acknowledge the assistance provided by my editor Aoife Barrett of Barrett Editing, who worked tirelessly on the editing of the manuscript. I could not have done it without her!

I would like to thank my editor Aoife. You have shown more faith in me than I have in myself and that I am so grateful … and I thank you for sticking with me.
I knew that the draft submitted was some way short of words required for final publication. However, Aoife assured me that she could see many parts of the draft which could be expanded to allow the reader to appreciate the story more. And that is what happened as Aoife explored areas of the story which I felt were complete but through her expertise she teased things out and made the story both clearer in my eyes and also, I’m sure, to the eventual future reader.