"Donahue, John - Sensei" - читать интересную книгу автора (Donahue John)

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PS3604.O638 S46 2003 8I3'.6 dc2I

First Edition: April 2003

10 987654321

for Clare Donohue,

first teacher,

with love

Acknowledgments

A number of people have been instrumental in assisting in the writing
of this book, and I would like to thank them.

Charles Fieramusca, former head of Homicide for the Buffalo Police
Department and assistant professor in Medaille College's Criminal
Justice Program, patiently answered my grisly questions and gave me the
benefit of his expertise and insight regarding investigative
procedure.

Kimura Hiroaki, one in a long line of excellent martial arts sensei I
have studied under, taught me the types of lessons you don't get in
school.

Deepest thanks go to my agent, Jacques de Spoelberch, for his
invaluable support. My editor, Carolyn Chu, is a rare find. Her high
level of expectation and unabashed enthusiasm for the project made
writing the book a continuing revelation and a joy.

Most important, I would like to thank my wife, Kitty, who, as in all
things, has encouraged and supported me in ways beyond measure. Her
kind yet critical reading of the chapters and her willingness to enter
with me into Burke's world have made the process of writing this book
one of the best things we have done together, which is saying a lot.

S E I

Prologue

With what I know now, I can pretty much make sense of the whole thing.
It's taken a while. Like making sense of the first file Micky showed
me. The crime scene pictures, the coroner's report, the notes from the
investigating officers initially seemed disconnected a wealth of
jumbled facts that didn't hang together. Random acts. A scene of