by John McNally
fn1 Special martime commando force co-opted to the G&T following assault action in the Bay of Biscay during Operation Scarlatti.
fn2 Fun physicist par excellence.
Part Two
Chapter Ten
fn1 Nano food and water packs that had been shrunk in large quantities to keep the Sons of Scarlatti fed and hydrated wherever they were.
Chapter Twelve
fn1 Organised criminal gangs, often violent, based in Hong Kong but operating through East Asia, akin to the Italian Mafia.
Chapter Thirteen
fn1 Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode.
Chapter Fourteen
fn1 Pretending a variety of problem behaviours in order to punish his parents for separating.
Chapter Sixteen
fn1 K. Eric Drexler, nanotech pioneer who first proposed the idea of self-replicating nanoscale assemblers.
Chapter Eighteen
fn1 Survived following 8 hours of surgery. Awarded the Order of the Medal for Bravery (Gold) – Hong Kong.
Part Three
Chapter Twenty-Five
fn1 Super-organisms are groups of individual organisms that gather together to better ensure survival – e.g. an ants’ nest, a coral reef, human society. As a young scientist Kaparis developed a theory that super-organisms worked to serve a super-few special individuals (such as himself). His theory was demolished during a lecture in Cambridge in 1993 by Ethan Drake when he pointed out a simple mathematical error in the statistical method.
fn2 Wendy Sowberts, Northumberland Champion Sheepdog Trainer 1976-79. Subject of Stubbs’s affection 1973-2001. ‘I was stunned for 28 years, like a hare before a serpent’.
fn3 A form of camping practised by the clinically insane. To be avoided at all costs.
Chapter Thiry-Three
fn1 Severed cockroach heads can survive for several hours after disconnection from the body. Headless cockroach bodies can survive for weeks.
Part Four
Chapter Thiry-Six
fn1 An electric motor is a magnet in a coil of wire. If you put electrical current through the coil the magnet rotates. Similarly, and conversely, if you physically rotate the magnet you generate electrical current in the coil. It’s called ‘Mutual induction’. A self-taught South London nobody, Michael Faraday, discovered this in 1831. It has been very, very, very, very, very useful.
Chapter Thiry-Seven
fn1 Drop a 9-volt battery (the rectangular ones) into a glass of salt water and see for yourself.
Chapter Thiry-Eight
fn1 Al Lampo Dell’Armi – Handel.
Chapter Forty-One
fn1 Latin word for tortoise. Defensive military formation pioneered by the Legions of Ancient Rome, characterised by a shell of aligned or overlapped shields.
fn2 Experience from Operation Scarlatti showed that Tyros were fitted with suicide capsules, tiny compressed air vessels planted in their brains that could be set off by scratching sensors on their scalp, causing a sudden fatal brain haemorrhage.
fn3 Heads Up Display: information projected on to a transparent surface in the user’s line of sight, e.g. cockpit canopy or helmet visor.
Chapter Forty-Two
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Chapter Forty-Three
fn1 Thrip – Order Thysanoptera – a fringe-winged insect with cigar-shaped body, usually 1mm in length, aka – stormbugs, thunderbugs, stormflies, thunderflies.
Chapter Forty-Four
fn1 299, 792, 458 metres per second
Chapter Forty-Five
fn1 “He may not have actually presented his card,” she said in later testimony, “but it felt as if he did.”
Books by John McNally
Infinity Drake: The Sons of Scarlatti
Infinity Drake: The Forbidden City
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