Skin of the Wolf (30 page)

We received a lot of inspiration and a lot of help during the writing of this book, and although any errors are solely the fault of the authors, we’d like to thank the following institutions and individuals, some of whom are aware of their part in it, and some of whom probably are not:

The George Gustav Heye Center at the National Museum of the American Indian

The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers

American Indian Community House, NYC

Art Workshop International

Nancy Rosoff and Susan Zeller of the Brooklyn Museum

Tom Govero

Bill Guion

Betsy Harding, Tom Savage, and the late Royal Huber

Barb Shoup and Charles Kreloff

Steve Blier, Hillary Brown, Monty Freeman, James Russell

The Consultant in the Snow (you know who you are)

And as always, thanks to Vanessa Kehren and the team at Penguin/Blue Rider, and to our agent, the calm and unflappable Steve
Axelrod.

Sam Cabot is the pseudonym of Carlos Dews and S. J. Rozan.

Carlos Dews is an associate professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University, where he directs the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. He lives in Rome, Italy.

S. J. Rozan is the author of many critically acclaimed novels and short stories that have won crime fiction’s greatest honors, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero awards. Born and raised in the Bronx, Rozan now lives in Lower
Manhattan.