Killing Rain

an author could ever ask for through Bangkok and Phuket; novelist Christopher G. Moore, for sharing his insights about life in Bangkok and Thai culture; novelist Marcus Wynne, for sharing his experiences with Bangkok, knives, and the Special Ops community; and Bangkokbob—whoever you are, www.bangkokbob.net is a wonderful resource.
    Massad Ayoob of the Lethal Force Institute, for sharing his awe-inspiring knowledge of and experience with firearms tools and tactics, and for helpful comments on the manuscript.
    Tony Blauer, for again sharing with Rain his profound knowledge of the psychology, physiology, and tactics of violence.
    The dreaded Carl, who thank God is still out there, for teaching me so much, for being the inspiration behind Dox, and for sharing his thoughts about “catch and release” programs.
    Again and always, sensei Koichiro Fukasawa of Wasabi Communications, a singular window on everything Japan and Japanese, for years of insight, humor, and friendship, and for helpful comments on the manuscript.
    Matt Furey, for providing the Combat Conditioning bodyweight exercises that Rain uses in this book to stay in top shape (and that his author uses, too).
    Lori Kupfer, for years of friendship, for continued insightsinto what sophisticated, sexy women like Delilah wear and how they think, and for helpful comments on the manuscript.
    Janelle McCuen, Miss Creative Force, for making sure that Rain knows his telephoto lenses.
    Matt Powers, for once again ensuring that Rain knows his wines, for leading the good fight against “like” and “you know,” and for helpful comments on the manuscript.
    Evan Rosen, M.D. Ph.D., and Peter Zimetbaum, M.D., for once again offering (reluctant) expert advice on some of the killing techniques in this book, and for helpful comments on the manuscript. Actually, I don’t think the advice is so reluctant anymore. I think they’re starting to enjoy it.
    Ernie Tibaldi, a thirty-one-year veteran agent of the FBI, for continuing to generously share his encyclopedic knowledge of law enforcement and personal safety issues, and for helpful comments on the manuscript.
    William Scott Wilson, for The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi , a book that represents a significant part of John Rain’s emerging philosophy.
    The extraordinarily eclectic group of philosophers, badasses (mostly retired), and deviants who hang out at Marc Mac Young’s and Dianna Gordon’s www.nononsenseselfdefense.com . The amount I’ve learned from you all is hard to put in words, and you’re all great company during those long lonely nights of approaching deadlines, too. In particular, thanks to Dave Bean, for sharing his knowledge of firearms and for steering me to backstory sources for various aspects of this book; Jack “Spook” Finch, Mr. Lawsey, Lawsey himself, veteran of the Vietnam War’s Easter Offensive, Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Storm, and Silver Star awardee, for sharing his experiences with “the cost of it,” for making Rain a Kimber man, and for helpful comments on the manuscript; Frank “Pancho” Garza, ex-Marine, for showing byhis example what it’s like to be one of the toughest hombres out there and yet with a heart as soft as beaver fur; Dianna “Mrs. Velociraptor” Gordon, for “defending my readers” by helping me hone everything from punctuation to backstory to character, and for teaching Dox to be a gentleman around Delilah; Montie Guthrie, for sharing his knowledge of and experience with firearm tools and tactics, for teaching Rain that “nothing good can come of this,” and that, for the bad guy, “it is never your turn,” and for helpful comments on the manuscript; Drew Anderson, Wim “Chimpy” Demeere, Ed Fanning, Michael “Mama Duck” Johnson, and David Organ, for sharing their thoughts on invisibility in crowds; Marc “Animal” Mac Young, the Tiresius of civilization and the street, for deepening my understanding of urban survival tactics, how crowds react to violence, how operators carry themselves, how Klingons decloak and Predators conceal themselves, and for helpful comments on the manuscript; Slugg, for sharing his insights on what permits men to do bad things for good purposes and how they live with it after, on how high-pressure interrogations are conducted and resisted, for demonstrating by his presence how a big man can disappear, and for helpful comments on the manuscript; Tristan Sutrisno, former Army Special Forces, Vietnam