Innocent Page 41

In the living room, I stand. I pat the pockets of my shirt, my pants, to be sure I have everything, that I am, in a sense, still all here. I am. In a minute, I will head into Center City to Stern's office to sign away my career on the bench in final settlement for all my folly in recent years. And that's okay. I'm ready to find out what happens next.

Evanston

11/20/09

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to many persons for their help with this book. A number of physicians provided essential assistance on medical issues: Dr. Carl Boyar, medical director of Clearbrook Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois; Dr. Michael W. Kaufman of NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois, a pathologist; Dr. Jerrold Leikin of NorthShore University HealthSystem in Glenview, Illinois, a toxicologist; Dr. Nina Paleologos of NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, a neurologist; and Dr. Sydney Wright of Northwestern University Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, a psychopharmacologist. My law partner Marc J. Zwillinger, in the D.C. office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, and Russ Shumway, our technical director of E-Discovery and Forensic Services, greatly enhanced my understanding of computer forensics. I am immensely grateful to all of these experts for their aid. The mistakes I made, notwithstanding their efforts, are clearly my fault, not theirs.

I had three incisive advance readings from close friends, James McManus, Julian Solotorovsky, and Jeffrey Toobin. I am very, very grateful to each of them for helping me shape the manuscript. My daughter, Rachel Turow, and her husband, Ben Schiffrin, were also important sounding boards, and I owe Rachel special thanks for helping me avoid several embarrassing errors.

To my editor at Grand Central, Deb Futter; my agent, Gail Hochman; and, most especially, Nina, who all stayed with me, draft by draft, thanks is not really word enough.

Scott Turow, Innocent

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