They looked at each other across the table with a softness that neither dared to define.
‘I think we should sleep on it,’ he answered.
Acknowledgements
Since the first edition of this book was published, bio-terrorism has become a frightening reality in the aftermath of September 11th 2001.
While preparing the factual backdrop against which this work of fiction is set, many people were generous with their time in setting me straight. There isn’t space to list them all and some of them spoke to me in confidence, but I would like to thank Dr Wolfgang Preiser of the Department of Virology at Middlesex Hospital, who spent many patient hours explaining to me how viruses can be spread – any errors in this book are very much mine and not his.
Glyn Ford MEP, Searchlight magazine and the EU Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia in Vienna gave me valuable insights into the extreme right-wing in Europe. Officers from Scotland Yard’s Racial and Violent Crimes Task Force were most helpful too.
The Royal Navy Submarine Service was also extremely generous with its time. I am particularly grateful to Commander Jeff Tall, Curator of the RN Submarine Museum at Gosport and to Lt.-Commander Mike Walliker, First Lieutenant of HMS Turbulent, whose captain and crew looked after me so warmly and so informatively when I was their guest on a submerged passage to the Mediterranean.
Finally I should acknowledge the colourful insight into the murky world of arms smuggling in Africa which was given to me by someone who will remain nameless. Subsequent to our conversations, he was tried for the murder of his lover by poisoning and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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