Dieter and Elise Bachman, and of course all the characters in the contemporary story, are products of the author's imagination. For more on The Blood Lance visit my website at: www.craigsmithnovels.ch

  Acknowledgements

  I am grateful to Harriet McNeal, Burdette Palmberg, my wife Martha Ineichen Smith, and my mother Shirley Underwood for reading an early draft of this novel. Their unique perspectives and unfailing encouragement helped me enormously during the rewriting process. I also want to recognise my old friends Matthew Jockers and Britta Luehr, Matt for helping over the rocky parts of the story, Britta for showing me Hamburg. Many thanks also to those who over the years have so generously shared their resources when I needed them most: Herbert Ineichen, Doug and Maria Smith, Don Jennermann, and Rick Williams.

  I want finally to give special thanks to my editor Ed Handyside and to my agent Jeffrey Simmons. Without their hard work and unflinching faith this book could not have been made.

  CRAIG SMITH lives with his wife, Martha, in Lucerne, Switzerland. A former university professor, he holds a doctorate in philosophy from the university of Southern Illinois. His first novel, published in the UK as Silent She Sleeps and in the US as The Whisper of Leaves, won bronze medal in the mystery category of ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Awards.

  The Painted Messiah, the first of his novels to chronicle the exploits of T.K. Malloy, was first published by Myrmidon in 2007 and is available in both hardback and paperback editions.

 

 

  Craig Smith, The Blood Lance

 

 

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