by Ken Hansen
lead counselor
the simple Life
work
707-239-8619
Home
707-239-8885
mobile
707-286-4320
work
[email protected]
Sojourner Truth Rayburn
mobile
404-971-1828
home
[email protected]
home address
apt. 16-d
1037 juniper st. nw
atlanta, ga
Elizabeth Raynke
Here We Go Childcare
work
240-549-9781
home
301-226-3976
mobile
301-222-3961
work address
632 keokee st.
Langley park, md
Notes
I pray they don’t close this place
Everett Reynolds, Jr.
mobile
505-279-9981
Notes
Ev’s better at shooting pool than shooting guns
Taniquioa Runion
women within
work
212-327-8809
Hakim Safar
mobile
971-4-8907292
home
[email protected]
Notes
He’s The Best Poker Player
Joquin Santiago
Mail cour.
Lloyds
work
44-20-1877-0997
work address
1512 bawd st.
london
Emily Sarchuk
mobile
312-260-0828
Hefaz Saxo
mobile
202-278-2882
Notes
works where Jamil hangs
Georgia Seals
home
212-286-8781
mobile
212-756-7782
home
[email protected]
Seekers only
Work
626-289-3992
Mobile
980-263-8891
Home
626-332-9812
work address
201 s dacotah st.
los angeles
Notes
Is He Ready?
Peter Stanibruck
low lying scum
Larry’s bail bonds
work
956-291-8989
Notes
Where Did He Go?
Eloise Starcraft
work
303-926-3355
mobile
303-260-0103
home
[email protected]
work address
767 soar st.
denver, co
birthday
15-June-90
spouse
Kirk
Notes
fav ski bunny
amann subil
home address
15 so. 22nd st.
chicago
spouse
Kalili
child
Nadir
Notes
ghost recon
Hafiz Tannous
chief, high command
mobile
971-4-0122876
Morgan Taylor
mobile
202-913-7675
home
[email protected]
Notes
goes above and beyond the call of duty
Jeff Thomas, III
work
202-987-1295
home
202-693-4721
mobile
202-579-7979
home address
Apartment three
1252 Maryland Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20024
Notes
If I could play The Apostle, would I know the truth?
Thurman’s chocolates
Han Torbold
buyer
The centuries past
work
212-639-2777
work
[email protected]
Notes
great antiques
Tamera Touchstone
Parts Now
work
618-870-2288
merissa unterhyme
mobile
504-490-2877
home
[email protected]
Notes
I cherish every moment I spend with her
Anthony Watry
home
970-396-8802
work
970-212-2868
home
[email protected]
home address
267 deep gorge drive
fort collins, co 80525
birthday
21-Dec-82
spouse
Lara
child
Jess
Notes
tight turns on snowy roads
charles within
yankee imports
work
617-826-8713
work
[email protected]
home address
259 sea port blvd.
boston, ma
Woltham our Christ redeemer church
work
434-798-1862
mobile
434-896-2286
work address
Route 2, Highway 57
Lynchburg, VA
Notes
nice location for a little celebration
Carrie words
harmony publishing company
mobile
206-879-9871
home
[email protected]
Sauron Yandor
Councils of Troy & Rome
The Aeneid Company
work
39-06-265-8718
mobile
39-06-222-8760
work
[email protected]
Notes
The Lord of the Rings?
Dakota Yeller
work
541-386-8876
mobile
541-587-2862
home
[email protected]
home address
16B The Palisades
1919 Ocean Way
Winchester Bay, Oregon, 97467
birthday
17-Feb-75
Your time assisted living
work
304-897-7128
Felicity yorke
london times
work
44-20-2369-7866
dominique yves
mobile
33-1-23-66-24-69
home
[email protected]
Notes
enjoyed her company in Paris
Thomas Zaccaro
Tragic Flaws International
work
202-542-3131
work
[email protected]
Notes
A forlorn hope?
william zobrist
mobile
775-893-3292
work
[email protected]
home
[email protected]
zor shrine circus
work
608-982-2996
Acknowledgements
When I began this complex novel as a first-time author, I had only a small notion of just how much help I would need to pull it off. Fortunately, the early guidance I received from so many good friends quickly reminded me that our greatest journeys are rarely travelled alone. I owe much to them and the many others who helped me through this adventure.
First, I would like to thank everyone who gave me such valuable feedback concerning an early draft of this book, including Jacob Craft, Lori Tomaselli, Greg Lynch, Dan Aiman, Bill Toman, Tyler Hansen, and Emili (Tischer) Hansen. Your tho
ughts helped point me in the right direction and gave me encouragement to find answers to the many challenges I faced.
Linda Kampe, you deserve special thanks. I still cannot believe how much time you must have spent on this work to give me so many perceptive comments and edits. In particular, you deserve much credit for pushing me to work harder on the development of Sonatina and Jochi and their relationships with the central characters of the book.
To Father Dick Aiken, thank you for guiding me through some of the religious aspects of the book—particularly regarding matters relating to the Catholic Church. I have always found you to be an insightful spiritual leader and a wonderful friend. Of course, any mistakes or exaggerations in the novel concerning Catholicism are solely my fault for not listening to your expert wisdom.
One of my very best friends, Col. Joseph Buche (ret.), made it possible for me to attempt to find some realism when it came to scenes involving the U.S. military. I was pretty naïve about quite a few military/spy things until Joe straightened me out more than once with a “Ken, I love you like a brother, but…” Thanks for being honest with me, Joe. And thank you for your service to our country and the many tours of duty that put you in harm’s way. You probably never thought those experiences would come in handy when helping a friend write a novel. I do want to be clear to readers, though. I didn’t always listen to Joe because, as Joe is fond of joking, “Nothing ruins a good war story like the truth.” Readers will have to divine for themselves what is close to reality and what is simply a fabrication of my little daydreams.
My wife, Jenny Hansen, deserves the “Hopelessly Dedicated Award” for reading three different versions of this book and giving me outstanding feedback every time. I am not sure how she managed that since the basic stories remained the same throughout. I guess she must love me (as I do her). There is no way this book gets written in the absence of her love. She and my children (Tyler, Ben and Jenna) deserve credit for putting up with me during the years I wrote and edited this. I bounced so many ideas off of them that they probably felt like bumper cars at a carnival. I hope they enjoyed the experience as much as I did.
A huge thank you goes out to Tim Cavanaugh. Readers may have noticed a few Latin terms in this book. The only Latin I ever learned was while trying to decipher a few legal phrases during law school and beyond. Fortunately, those seem to be dropping out of common use in the law (res ipsa loquitor). However, this supposedly “dead” language seems to keep trying to make a comeback in other circles, so I suppose there may be some readers out there who might actually notice a mistake in Latin grammar. Tim graciously looked at a list of my Latin phrases in this book and saved me great embarrassment by correcting my many errors. If any terms remain questionable, they no doubt are mea culpa resulting from my own clumsy failure to apply his adept guidance to my specific uses.
From the beginning, a major challenge I faced was allowing two seemingly different stories to unfold separately and slowly come together without leaving the reader in complete confusion or total dismay. No doubt, that would have been the result if it were not for the keen insights and persistence of a top-notch editor, Paul Dinas. He helped me in many ways but perhaps most importantly by pushing me to rethink the entire organization of the book, which underwent a number of rewrites. While we did not always agree about how to slice through the complexity of this work, in the end the novel owes much of its better parts to his thoughtful recommendations.
Thanks also to Allison Merten for her excellent work as a copyeditor. With my legal background, I figured I had developed a pretty solid foundation for editing my own words. Thank goodness she saved me from that particular foible.
The maps at the beginning of the book and on my website owe their artistry to Christine Vande Voort. I can barely draw a stickman, so I think readers should have a sense of her level of effort on these maps. Thanks for your expertise, Chris, and also for your kindness when making all of those “final changes” that became not so final after all.
I’d like to applaud the folks at Damonza for their excellent work on cover and book designs. Momir Corocki came up with a great cover design from the beginning and was patient during my attempts to get it just right. Chrissy Hobbs was always very responsive and a delight to work with throughout the interior book design process.
Finally, I would like to add my most important thank you last. I want to thank God for…well, everything…but especially for Love. Sometimes Hate consumes our lives and becomes a driving force in our world, threatening even to tear this wonderful globe apart. If we can all remember to try to Love each other despite our differences, even our differing religions and political beliefs, and yes, try our very best to Love our “enemies” even when they Hate us, then the glow from that Love will truly light our lives, our nation, and our world.
Peace.
Author Bio
Ken Hansen is now a writer, pilot, biker, woodworker and occasional scuba diver but never again attorney. Though he majored in political science at the University of Wisconsin and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, his early political naiveté took him to a lobbying law firm in Washington, DC, where he discovered a few too many ugly truths. Turning his ambitions toward more productive endeavors, he ultimately served as VP & General Counsel of Epic Systems Corporation, a health care software company that grew much larger than he ever thought possible. He retired in 2013 to once again explore that seemingly simple question posed so many years ago in a philosophy class: “Why?” Luckily, his incredibly patient wife of thirty years, who helped him raise three great kids, keeps asking him, “Why not?”
