Mortal Remains

Acknowledgments

My thanks to Dr. Brian Co

To Dr. DeWolfe Miller for his tutoring on the darkness and techniques of deep mountain lake dives.

To Dr. Yasmine Ayroud for her advice on the state of a body after it spent twenty-seven years in the mud of a deep mountain lake.

To Joha

To my agent Denise and her staff Maura and Joy for all their support.

To publicist Nancy Berland for her enthusiastic encouragement.

And to my marvelous editor at Ballantine, Pat Peters.

About Peter Clement

Peter Clement is a physician who served as chief of Emergency in a major metropolitan teaching hospital, as well as the chief of Family Medicine, and has practiced as an M.D. for twenty-eight years.