Killer Instinct (46 page)
Authors: Joseph Finder
My wife, Michele Souda, was a valuable reader and editor of the manuscript. Not only did our daughter, Emma, have to put up with an almost-absentee father during the last months of the writing of
Killer Instinct
, but her baseball obsession inspired a key part of this book.
And finally, my brother, Henry Finder, editorial director of
The New Yorker
: you had my back, as they say (but you never would). From the genesis of the story to the final edits, you were invaluable. I can’t thank you enough.
KILLER INSTINCT
. Copyright © 2006 by Joseph Finder. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finder, Joseph.
Killer instinct: a novel / by Joseph Finder.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-0-312-34747-5
1. Sales executives—Fiction. 2. Success in business—Fiction. 3. Electronic industries—Fiction. 4. Special forces (Military science)—United States—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3556.I458K55 2006
813’.54—dc22
2006040501
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