THANKS
First of all, a very special thanks goes to David Morrell.
He didn't only create a myth, but also allowed me to use it for free-share.
Thank you.
I know this may sound odd, but I sincerely hope you will enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
This is a tribute to what you created.
Then a VERY special thank goes to Mary Bottazzi and Piero Costanzi, the friend who introduced her to me. Without Mary's tremendous amount of revision for free of my very bad English, this book would never have 'reached' the world, not in its English version. But it did.
The translation worked out, and this is a dream come true for me, and I will never thank her enough for that.
Now, before I go on with the other thanks, let me explain a couple of things.
When it's time to thank people at the end of their novels, writers usually say: 'there are too many people I would like to thank, so I will just mention some'.
Well...
Sad to say, but in this particular case there are very few.
Writers believe in things that don't exist, and they do so much that they change their lives because of these un-existing things.
But if you think about it, this falls perfectly under the definition of craziness.
So, if you aren't a famous and rich writer, people usually try to stop you from writing, because they think that working so much on things only existing inside your mind... Is insane.
And the fact that I was working on a free-share Rambo prequel made the situation even worse. I suspect that some of my friends secretly thought of hospitalizing me by force.
Anyway, at some point the whole world was telling me that I should stop: the fans (it's too good: change the copyrighted names and sell it), the few fellow writers who I dared to confess to (Rambo? Seriously? Are you drunk?), my personal friends (you are a good writer, don't waste it), my family (stop wasting your time).
Everyone I dared to tell, replied the same: 'Stop before it's too late. You have written a whole novel already!
But I couldn't stop, so I didn't.
I just continued in silence.
Then, after about a year, things changed.
Thanks to my youtube videos very, very few people started loving what I was doing, and telling me I should never give up, no matter what, because they were in love with my writing, and when I say love, I mean real love.
So thank you guys, really.
I won't lie: I needed it.
Some of those people asked not be mentioned here for professional reasons or for simple discretion, as did the US veterans that helped me. But there are others I can mention and it's a pleasure to do so. They are:
Piero Costanzi, both a fan and a real friend.
Randy Manning Stallone, who always believed in me.
Orazio Fusco, the first 'YEAR ONE-addict' of my Italian readers, who went through the first three books of my saga in a couple of sleepless nights, despite his very young age, and immediately asked me for more.
And most of all, I want to thank my very first US fan, friend, colleague and ally...
Mat Thomas Marchand
Whose Rambomania channel was a continuous inspiration for me.
You were the very few that always trusted in me and pushed me on....
*Thank you buddies*